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On entering HERBERT BRANDL’s atelier in the 8th district of Vienna, you become immersed in a world that leaves behind hectic day-to-day life. You feel as if you are in a curiosity cabinet: this late Renaissance innovation, also known as an art chamber, evolved from the early chambers of rare or curious things and describes a collecting concept that presents objects of differing origins and classification together. The collections had the purpose of showing the universal context of all things in order to convey a view of the world in which history, art, nature and science merge as a unity. …