Sankt Pölten,mostly abbreviated to the official name St. Pölten,is the capital and largest city of the State of Lower Austria in northeast Austria,with 55,538 inhabitants as of 1 January 2020. St. Pölten is a city with its own statute and therefore it is both a municipality and a district in the Mostviertel. Due to its cultural status,it has recently enjoyed an increase of visitors passing through Sankt Pölten on their way to Vienna.
Wolfgang Schüssel is an Austrian politician. He was Chancellor of Austria for two consecutive terms from February 2000 to January 2007. While being recognised as a rare example of an active reformer in contemporary Austrian politics,his governments were also highly controversial from the beginning,starting with the fact that he formed a coalition government with Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on both occasions. In 2011,he retired from being an active member of parliament due to a multitude of charges of corruption against members of his governments.
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna,Austria.
Richard Gerstl was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits,his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime,and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg,which led to his suicide.
Leopold GratzCGIH was an Austrian politician.
The Leopold Museum,housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna,Austria,is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art,featuring artists such as Egon Schiele,Gustav Klimt,Oskar Kokoschka,and Richard Gerstl.
Diplomatic relations between Austria and Bulgaria were established in 1879. Austria has an embassy in Sofia and an honorary consulate in Burgas while Bulgaria has an embassy in Vienna and an honorary consulate in Salzburg.
Foreign relations exist between Austria and Netherlands. Austria has an embassy in The Hague and 2 honorary consulates. The Netherlands have an embassy in Vienna and 6 honorary consulates. Both countries are full members of the Council of Europe,OECD,OSCE and the European Union.
Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl,who was Jewish,was born in Vienna,where her father worked as a dentist.
Art-Club was an association of artists during the postwar period in Vienna,Austria,in 1946–1959.
The Social Democratic Party of Austria is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria from 1945 until 1991,the party is the oldest extant political party in Austria. Along with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP),it is one of the country's two traditional major parties. It is positioned on the centre-left on the political spectrum.
Wolfgang Sobotka is an Austrian teacher,conductor and politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who served as the president of the Austrian National Council from 2017 until 2024.
Galerie St. Etienne is a New York art gallery specializing in Austrian and German Expressionism,established in Vienna in 1939 by Otto Kallir. In 1923,Kallir founded the Neue Galerie in Vienna. Forced to leave Austria after the 1938 Nazi invasion,Kallir established his gallery in Paris as the Galerie St. Etienne,named after the Neue Galerie's location near Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen. In 1939,Kallir and his family left France for the United States,moving the Galerie St. Etienne to New York City. The gallery still exists,run by Otto Kallir's granddaughter Jane at 24 West 57th Street.
Otto Kallir was an Austrian-American art historian,author,publisher,and gallerist. He was awarded the Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien in 1968.
Beate Meinl-Reisinger is an Austrian politician serving as leader of NEOS –The New Austria and Liberal Forum since June 2018. She is also the leader of the party's parliamentary group in the National Council since 2018. Previously,she was a member of the National Council and from 2015 to 2018,and a member of the Gemeinderat and Landtag of Vienna,where she also led the NEOS group. She returned to the National Council after the resignation of Matthias Strolz in 2018.
Stefan Michael Newerkla is an Austrian linguist,Slavist and philologist. He has taught as Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna since 2004 and has been Full Member (Fellow) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2018.
Vienna South West,also known as Electoral District 9E,is one of the 39 multi-member regional electoral districts of the National Council,the lower house of the Austrian Parliament,the national legislature of Austria. The electoral district was created in 1992 when electoral regulations were amended to add regional electoral districts to the existing state-wide electoral districts and came into being at the following legislative election in 1994. It consists of the districts of Hietzing,Liesing,Penzing and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus in the city-state of Vienna. The electoral district currently elects six of the 183 members of the National Council using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2019 legislative election the constituency had 210,813 registered electors.
