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He earned his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna. He started actively collecting art in the mid-1950s, with a major early focus being pieces by Egon Schiele, whose works were available inexpensively at the time.
Dec 24, 1997 · Dr. Leopold began buying art as a medical student in 1950, when the market for Schiele and Klimt was slight. Not wealthy, he borrowed from banks, bought a lot and actively traded mediocre works...
Jan 5, 2017 · Rudolf Leopold first came into contact with the artist’s work in 1950, and became immediately fixated by them for their strong, decisive lines and emotional potency. Spanning from the mid 19th through the mid 20th centuries, the collection illustrates the transition from the historicism of the Habsburg Empire to the distinctive style of the ...
Art Collector, Benefactor, Museum Founder. Rudolf Leopold was born on 1st March 1925 in Vienna. After World War II, he studied medicine at Vienna University, earning his doctorate in 1953. Alongside his medical studies, he started studying art history, and from the early 1950s began collecting art.
Jun 30, 2010 · Hans Klaus Techt/APA, via European Pressphoto Agency. He earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1953. Around this time, he became intensely interested in art. He began...
Leopold was motivated to start his collection after experiencing astonishment when visiting the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1947, which he regarded as “one of the most crucial days of my life.” In exchange for tutoring, he paid for his first acquisition, a work by Friedrich Gauermann, in 1947.
In 2001, the acquired collection moved into the specially built "Leopold Museum" – designed by architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner – as part of the MuseumsQuartier complex. Rudolf Leopold served as the museum’s director until his death on June 29, 2010.
