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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 well as masterworks by Secession founder Gustav Klimt.
The Leopold Collection is one of the most significant collections of Austrian art in the world. It was started by Prof. Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010) in the 1950s and brings together nearly 6,000 exhibits. In 1994 it was consolidated into the Leopold Museum Private Foundation. The Leopold Museum houses the largest collection of works by Egon ...
Aug 6, 2015 · Leopold Museum, Vienna. 24 April – 14 September 2015. by ANNA McNAY. When Tracey Emin (b1963) was still a teenager in Margate, accumulating many of the experiences that continue to feed into her self-exploratory and self-revelatory work today, she discovered turn-of-the-century Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and “instantly ...
The Painting became the subject of court proceedings in New York City from 1998 to 2010, after it was loaned in 1997 to the Museum of Modern Art in New York by the Leopold Museum as part of an exhibition of Schiele works from the Leopold Museum's collection. In 1999 the United States Government commenced a civil forfeiture action in New York ...
Artist of the Century. The Leopold Museum is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the “artist of the century” Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) during 2018’s commemorative year of Viennese Modernism. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Klimt’s death, the presentation impressively retraces his artistic transformation from a painter ...
Throughout his life, which was cut short by the Spanish Influenza, Egon Schiele (1890–1918) created an oeuvre that was both symptomatic and ground-breaking for his time. After founding the artists’ association Neukunstgruppe in the summer of 1909, he made sensational appearances on the art scene, for which he was celebrated as well as criticized, and became the leader of a generation of ...
Leopold Museum. One of Klimt’s most famous paintings, Death and Life, can be viewed in the Leopold Museum alongside many other works from the hand of this Art Nouveau figurehead. This late work is one of Klimt’s great allegories, in which he uses a bold composition to explore the cycle of human life. Wien Museum
