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With its roughly 6,000 works, Leopold Museum houses one of the world’s most important collections of Austrian art from the second half of the 19 th century and Modernism. . Passionate collectors Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold created it over the course of five decades and even managed to get masterpieces by the likes of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt – who, up until the 1960s, were considered tab
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Vienna, Austria. Coordinates. 48°12′9.540″N16°21′32.911″E. Type. Austrian art. The Leopold Museum, housed in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria, is home to one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl . It contains the world's ...
Closed now. 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Write a review. About. The Leopold Museum is a unique treasure-house of Viennese Jugendstil, the Wiener Werkstätte and Expressionism. It is the most-visited museum of the city's hottest cultural site, the MuseumsQuartier, and it houses the most significant and largest Egon Schiele collection in the world, as ...
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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.
The Leopold Museum is a unique treasure-trove of Viennese art nouveau, the Vienna Workshop and of the Expressionist period. As the most-visited museum in the most fashionable cultural place in the city, the MuseumsQuartier, it houses the most important and largest Egon Schiele collection in the world as well as masterpieces by the founder of the Vienna Secession movement, Gustav Klimt.
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The Leopold Museum. At the Leopold Museum in the center of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, you find not only the most eminent Egon Schiele collection but also major works by Gustav Klimt, such as "Death and Life" and his beautiful square-shaped landscape paintings.
