01.01.2005 to 31.12.2012
The LEOPOLD COLLECTION
ART
The LEOPOLD COLLECTION
Date: daily 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, closed on Tue
Venue: LEOPOLD MUSEUM
Free Guided Leopold Collection Tour
every Thu 18:00 (except holidays and exhibition openings)
in German language
Masterpieces of the Viennese Secessionist Movement, the Viennese Modernist Movement and the Austrian Expressionist Movement and the largest Egon Schiele Collection worldwide aside from major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and Albin Egger-Lienz as well as Herbert Boeckl, Hans Böhler, Anton Faistauer, Anton Kolig, Alfred Kubin, Wilhelm Thöny and others.
Masterpieces of the Viennese Secessionist Movement, the Viennese Modernist Movement and the Austrian Expressionist Movement
The LEOPOLD COLLECTION is one of the most important collections of modern Austrian art in the world. The more than 5,000 exhibits collected by Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold over five decades were consolidated in 1994 with the assistance of the Republic of Austria and the National Bank of Austria into the LEOPOLD MUSEUM PRIVATE FOUNDATION.
Largest Egon Schiele Collection Worldwide
The LEOPOLD MUSEUM in Vienna\'s MuseumsQuartier (MQ) contains the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world, together with major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl and Albin Egger-Lienz. The museum shows paintings and prints by Herbert Boeckl, Hans Böhler, Anton Faistauer, Anton Kolig, Alfred Kubin, and Wilhelm Thöny. In addition, it features outstanding works from the 19th century by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich Gauermann, August von Pettenkofen, Anton Romako, Emil Jakob Schindler, and Carl Schuch, among others.
www.leopoldmuseums.org