Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” features highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of Austrian art from the period 1890 to 1940.
Gustav Klimt
(1862-1918)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Oil, gold, and silver on canvas
Neue Galerie New York
Acquired through the generosity of Ronald S. Lauder, the heirs of the Estates of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, and the Estée Lauder Fund
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” features highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of Austrian art from the period 1890 to 1940. Neue Galerie New York is the result of the close thirty-year friendship shared between art dealer and museum exhibition organizer Serge Sabarsky and Ronald S. Lauder, the museum’s co-founder and President. They spent countless hours together discussing Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka. In the decade before Sabarsky died, they dreamed of creating a museum of Austrian and German art, and the Neue Galerie is the outcome of this shared passion.
Lauder’s purchase at age thirteen of a drawing by Schiele presaged what would become a lifelong fascination with Austrian Expressionist art, which represents the core of this museum’s collection. His interest led to the 2006 acquisition of Klimt’s 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for the museum. This towering work carries with it the tortured history of Europe in the twentieth century. After decades of legal wrangling, it was finally restituted to its rightful heirs, and the golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer now resides as the crown jewel of the Neue Galerie collection.
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Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940.
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Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (1907), permanently on view at Neue Galerie New York, is considered a masterpiece of Klimt’s so-called “Golden Style.” Few paintings have captured the public's imagination as thoroughly as the Woman in Gold.
Carl Moll
(1861-1945)
White Interior, 1905
Oil on canvas
Private Collection
Josef Hoffmann
(1870–1956)
Brooch acquired by Fritz Waerndorfer for Lili Waerndorfer, 1904
Execution: Wiener Werkstätte
Silver, partly gilt; coral, diamond, lapis lazuli, leopardite, moonstone, opal
Neue Galerie New York
Joseph Urban
(1872–1933)
Mantelpiece clock for Paul Hopfner's Restaurant, 1906
Execution: Unknown
Marquetry of thuja and mother-of-pearl, walnut (back), nickel-plated brass, and onyx marble. Celluloid dial with numerals in enamel and silvered copper
Private Collection
Oskar Kokoschka
(1886–1980)
Martha Hirsch (Dreaming Woman), 1909
Oil on canvas
Neue Galerie New York
Gift of the Serge and Vally Sabarsky Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Hulya Kolabas
© 2024 Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zürich
Installation views of “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.” Photos: Annie Schlechter
Installation views of “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.” Photos: Annie Schlechter
Installation views of “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.” Photos: Annie Schlechter
Installation views of “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.” Photos: Annie Schlechter