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Exhibition at the Leopold Museum.

Exhibition at the Leopold Museum.

With its newly conceived presentation of the collection, the Leopold Museum is creating an opulent tableau which affords uniquely rich and complex insights into the fascination of Vienna around 1900 and the atmosphere of this vibrant time.

Why do pictures appear three-dimensional? What role does central perspective play? Using pictures of long streets, rows of houses or avenues of trees, we will familiarise ourselves with this artistic medium.

Guided tour of the permanent exhibition "Vienna 1900".

As part of Pride Month, we are offering free special tours of our special exhibition "GLANZ UND ELEND. New Objectivity in Germany". The exhibition with around 150 works is the first comprehensive presentation of German New Objectivity in Austria and deals with queer themes in the period between the two world wars.

In the fin de siècle, Vienna was a breeding ground for an unprecedentedly fertile intellectual life in the arts and sciences. The guided tour series, which takes place every first and third Friday of the month, focuses on special topics that reflect the achievements and special features of this era. Experience revealing and exciting insights and view the works from a completely new perspective.

Join Anita Götz-Winkler every second Monday of the month on an exclusive guided tour through Vienna 1900 and discover the most diverse aspects of the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele as well as their cultural and artistic environment.

The ramifications of World War I called for new depictions of reality in art. The resignation, accusations and indescribable hardship that characterized this time on the one hand, and the hope, longings and emerging zest for life of the "Golden Twenties" on the other, found expression in a new type of art – one that was unsentimental, sober, specific and purist; one that described the world in an objective, realistic manner.

In this exhibition at the Leopold Museum, the highlights from six collections of the Vienna Insurance Group will encounter each other for the first time. Despite the collections’ different emphases and evolutions, their works are unknown familiars, as they all hail from compilations gathered by companies belonging to the same family.