The Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ) is pleased to announce the release of its third issue. BRJ is an international, peer-reviewed, Diamond open-access e-journal dedicated to research on the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe, broadly defined, from the medieval period to the present.

Belvedere Research Journal 3 (2025), https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1

EDITORIAL
Christian Huemer, Johanna Aufreiter, Anna-Marie Kroupová, Luisa Ziaja, Katarina Lozo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.114594

RESEARCH ARTICLES
Thomas Moser
Diplomatic Art History: The Third Republic’s Identity Crisis in the French Embassy Building in Habsburg Vienna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.109429

Christian Bauer
From Masks to Modernism: The Theater as a Nucleus of Early Viennese Expressionism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.94802

DISCOVERIES
Anna-Marie Kroupová, Thomas Zimmel, Karl Klaus Körner
Calm Before the Storm? A New Interpretation of Two Seascapes by Lorenzo Butti in the Belvedere
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.114341

Julian Adoff
Jewish Modernity in Multiplicity: Maurycy Gottlieb’s Dialectically Hybrid Jewish/Polish National Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.114366

Kati Renner
Otto Hettner’s Picknick from 1906: A First Contextualization and the History of the Reception of a Major Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48636/brj.2025.1.114346

Editorial Board (2025): Éva Forgács, Ivan Gerát, Julie M. Johnson, Eva Kernbauer, Lukas Madersbacher, Matthew Rampley, Mirjana Repanić-Braun, Nicholas Sawicki, Werner Telesko, Markéta Theinhardt, Anselm Wagner

The Belvedere Research Journal invites submissions on a rolling basis. The editors welcome informal enquiries about potential proposals.

Please send submissions and enquiries to journalbelvedere.at. To learn more about the author guidelines, see https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/brj/about/submissions.

For more information about the journal, see https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/brj/about or contact the editorial office directly.