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Rudolf Leopold (1 March 1925 – 29 June 2010) was an Austrian art collector, whose collection of 5,000 works of art was purchased by the Government of Austria and used to create the Leopold Museum, of which he was made director for life.
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...
Rudolf Leopold accomplished something remarkable in the 1950s, as the globe continued to recover from war and artists grappled with new realities in startling new ways: he amassed a substantial, artistically sophisticated, and historically significant art collection of international acclaim.
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.
From the 1950s, the Viennese ophthalmologists Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) and his wife Elisabeth Leopold (born 1926) started an extensive art collection. Their original focus on nineteenth-century Austrian art was gradually extended to include early twentieth-century Austrian Modernists.
Nov 25, 2007 · The exhibition celebrated the singular triumph of glassmakers Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1939), providing insight into the intellectual appetite of the late Victorians through the lens of botany as an academic discipline, and offered close-ups of the people and the craft process behind the Glass Flowers.
Jun 30, 2010 · Rudolf Leopold, a Viennese art collector and museum director who amassed one of the world’s most significant collections of 20th-century Austrian art, but who faced accusations that some of it had...
