Dear Friends,

The summer months in New York City always offer more opportunity for relaxed, balmy days of exploration. As ever, we are delighted to welcome you into Neue Galerie New York, where we are offering an exhibition season that features the museum's collection of Austrian and German art with two complementary presentations – “German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” and “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” – that fill all gallery floors of our landmark Museum Mile building.

The last time that such expansive selection of our esteemed collection was on view was in 2022. This year’s presentation highlights modern Austrian and German art and design from around 1890 to 1940, supporting the institution’s mission to make the finest examples of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry. Both exhibitions are drawn from the museum’s core holdings, offering you an extraordinary, up-close view of the treasures in our collection.

The Neue Galerie, which first opened in November 2001, has become a beloved place, earning praise from visitors, critics, and colleagues in equal measure. I love to learn of the impact of our wonderful jewel-box institution—how people fondly remember their time spent visiting our superb collection of Austrian and German art and design; our well-appointed Book Store and Design Shop, full of finely made and carefully selected objects; and of course, our beloved Café Sabarsky, with its authentic Viennese coffee and our Apfelstrudel served mit Schlag.

Our visitors come to see the iconic works of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, as well as their Viennese contemporaries Richard Gerstl and Oskar Kokoschka; to take in the designs of the Austrian decorative artists led by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser; to experience the power of the German Expressionists, among them Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; and to appreciate the leading figures of the Bauhaus, such as Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

I wish you a wonderful summer of adventure – and we hope you will join us to appreciate the Gesamtkunstwerk that is Neue Galerie New York.