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Viktor Halmi: Archduke Franz Salvator coming home from a trip to the mountains, drawing, 1908

In the late 19th century, following the model of Emperor Franz Joseph, members of the Hapsburg dynasty liked to show themselves as private individuals wearing alpine costume, thereby indirectly acknowledging their commitment to German Austria.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    German Austrians or Austrian Germans?

    The ‘Austrian identity’ of the German-speaking subjects of the Habsburg Monarchy was an intractably problematic phenomenon that is best described in terms of a ‘double identity’.