Happy Postcrossing from Belgium

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postcard by papersisters

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,666 km

sent by Maya in Boortmeerbeek

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Victor Horta (1861-1947). Maison & Atelier. 

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 1,683 km.

sent by Dirk in Brussels

Victor Pierre Horta ( 1861 – 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer.  Horta is considered one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture. Maison & Atelier is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the major town houses of Victor Horta in Brussels.

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Antwerp Port House

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,690 km

sent by Peggy in Brussels

Zaha Hadid Architects' design of the Antwerp Port Authority's head office puts the Port of Antwerp on the architectural world map. The Port House symbolises the dynamic and innovative nature of the Port of Antwerp.

Gloomy and Bright

Gloomy Sea

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Premonition of the sea.

 Photo - Andrey Schukin  

travel time 13 days

distance travelled 1,028 km

sent by Kristina in Minsk

Morning Has Broken

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Winter morning

Photo - Alexander Batura

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,028 km

sent by Ksenia in Minsk

Minsk buildings

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The main building of the railway station, Minsk

travel time 21 days

distance travelled 1,014 km

sent by Victoria in Minsk

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National Art Museum, Minsk

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,014 km

sent by Dina in Minsk

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Republican Trade Union Palace of Culture, Minsk

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 1,150 km

sent by Dasha in Brest

Starry Night

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Night in Carpathians. Photo Maxim Weise

travel time 10 days

distance travelled 913 km

sent by Tanya in Dokshitsy

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Falling star
travel time 8 days
distance travelled 1,005 km
sent by Julia in Grodno

 A meteor of the Perseids meteor shower burns up in the atmosphere behind a Catholic church near the village of Bogushevichi, some 100 km from Minsk, Belarus

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Church by the lake
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 1,028 km
sent by Olga in Minsk

"You are a guest of nature - behave." Hundertwasser

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Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna
  "You are a guest of nature - behave." 

travel time 19 days

distance travelled 2,295 km

sent by Nastia in Orenburg, Russia

The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author.  The Hundertwasser House is one of Vienna's most visited buildings and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.

"The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line." 

" All art is Erotic" - Gustav Klimt

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Wien, Belvedere Museum, Gold Cabinet

 Gustav Klimt, The Kiss 

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,645 km

sent by Nicole in Vienna

Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. The Kiss (Lovers) by Gustav Klimt is the most famous Austrian painting and the highlight of the permanent collection at the Upper Belvedere. It shows a couple swathed in richly embellished robes embracing in a meadow of flowers on the brink of a precipice. The painting dates from 1907/08 at the height of Klimt’s “Golden Period”..

Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918) oli itävaltalainen symbolistinen taidemaalari ja yksi Wienin art nouveau -taidesuuntauksen kärkihahmoja. Hänen töilleen ovat tunnusomaisia kullanväriset taustat sekä mosaiikkimainen pinnan täyttö. Aikanaan hänen eroottiset ja symbolistiset maalauksensa aiheuttivat myös paljon kohua ja kritiikkiä. Klimtin tunnetuimpia töitä ovat Suudelma ja Kultainen Adele.

The Three Ages of Woman,  Mother and Child, 1905

Unhappy Empress

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,679 km

sent by Jutta in Leobersdorf

Elisabeth  ( 1837 –  1898)  married young into an unhappy royal life, most famous woman of her era, died violently, had an eating disorder, she was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and many other titles by marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I. 

Portrait of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria in 1865, painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Direct swap sent by Sofia in Vienna, Austria