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The Leopold Museum, with over 8,000 artworks, houses one of the world’s most important collections of Austrian art, focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century and subsequent Modernism. The intersection of art with the intellectual world of “Vienna around 1900” is uniquely accessible at the Leopold Museum, where art historical ...
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- Portrait of A Changing Europe at The Leopold Museum
- Carl Moll
- Sophistication, Diversity & Cultural Blossoming in Fin-De-Siècle Vienna
- The Secession Elevated The Applied Arts to The Same Status as Painting
- Josef Hoffmann
- Koloman Moser
- Exploring Human Complexity in A More Secular Society
- Paintings by Blau, Kolig, Kokoschka, Gerstl & List at The Leopold
- Gustav Klimt
- A Masterpiece by Klimt at The Leopold Museum
In mid-19th century Europe, would-be artists born in Austria and other centers of culture were trained under the strict influence of academies of art, where the subject matter they painted was simplified and idealized. Classical, mythological, historical and religious themes were encouraged and prized; whereas contemporary advances, trends and soci...
Adopting inspiration and techniques from Courbet and the French Impressionists, Carl Moll (1861 — 1945) became one of the most prominent Jugendstil {Art Nouveau} painters in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. You will notice that the surface of Moll’s impressive canvases are textured.
In many ways, Vienna between 1890 and 1918 resembled modern Western cities of today. As the principal metropolis of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the center of its government and commerce, Vienna became one of the first multi-ethnic, modern cities. The elegant Ringstrasse in the center of Vienna was simultaneously the seat of rigid Conservatism, ...
With the founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897, the goals and vision of Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser were made clear: to infuse art into every facet of human life, to initiate an exchange of ideas with artists outside of Austria, and to create a “total art” that unified all of the visual and creative arts. Thus, for the first t...
Well-known internationally as an architect and designer, Josef Hoffmann (1870 — 1956) was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession, and he co-founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser. In the Hohe Warte district in Vienna, Hoffmann built a duplex house on a hill overlooking the city for the families of Carl Moll and Koloman Moser.
Koloman Moser (1868 — 1918) was an influential figure in the development of twentieth-century graphic art, furniture design, fabrics and painting. He reacted to the Baroque decadence of turn-of-the-century Vienna by drawing inspiration from the classical lines found in ancient art and architecture from Greece and Rome. In addition to being a first-...
The Vienna Secession contributed to a growth in Liberalism — which moderated religious dictates and led to a reexamination of human sexuality — allowing Viennese artists to engender paintings with erotic themes like never before in the history of art. This frank and unabashed exploration of the power of sexuality by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele an...
Other notable works of art in the Leopold collection include paintings by the Expressionists Anton Kolig (above left) and Oskar Kokoschka (above right), Richard Gerstl (below left) and the landscape artist Tina Blau (below right).
While the Belvedere Museum owns the world’s largest and most impressive collection of paintings (24 in all) by Gustav Klimt (1862 — 1918), the Leopold possesses numerous gems created by Klimt, including “The Blind Man” from 1896 (above left), “Lady with a Lilac Scarf” painted between 1880 and 1882 (above right), and a drawing from 1886 entitled Stu...
Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece entitled “Death and Life” would certainly have been of interest to Sigmund Freud. On the right side of this colorful canvas, one finds the positive emotions associated with the Life Drive as described by Freud: love, procreation, affection, harmonious social cooperation — all of which are essential for the continuation of...
Oct 24, 2023 · 1. Hans Makart Paintings. To help illustrate the radical nature of their endeavor, the Leopold Museum begins its displays with they heyday of Historicism and several Hans Makart paintings. Makart was a leading figure in the city’s art scene of the late 19th century, a period dominated by Historicism.
Tip: Since the end of 2022, the online collection of the Leopold Museum has also allowed you to view the masterpieces online in outstanding image quality. Discover 1,400 works from the museum's own collection as well as privately owned works on permanent loan.
Together with the Republic of Austria and the Austrian National Bank, the collector Dr. Rudolf Leopold, who died in 2010 at the age of 85, consolidated his collection, which is now exhibited in a museum built by the Austrian state, into a private foundation. It is the largest and most visited museum in the newly created Museums Quartier.
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