"Vienna Calling" 2024

Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 2"

Medium: Archival Ink on Paper

Artist: Jonas Stirner

Price: $1500

Vienna Calling (2024) is Jonas Stirner’s most lyrical invocation—a fragmented hymn to a city where empire, art, and atmosphere still echo in every facade. Unlike his more densely layered works, this piece breathes. It’s spacious, elegant, and almost reverent. Each vignette—a grand neoclassical building, a gilded statue, a burnished autumn sky—is given its moment, like individual notes in a waltz, suspended in quiet conversation.

The palette is soft but precise: pale creams, stone pinks, storm blues, and a sudden burst of warm orange, like light catching gold leaf. Stirner’s textures pull each image just slightly out of focus, as if viewed through the fog of memory or a museum glass long untouched. This isn’t Vienna as a tourist sees it—it’s Vienna as a painter feels it. Historical but never cold, majestic but strangely intimate.

There’s a delicate restraint here that makes Vienna Calling stand apart. It’s not shouting for your attention—it’s inviting it, whispering across space and time. For the thoughtful collector, this piece offers not just beauty, but a kind of stillness—an echo of grace in an age of noise.