29 September 2006 – 29 January 2007

GERMAN EXPRESSIONISTS - The Thyssen Bornemisza collection and others

This autumn the Leopold Museum is presenting a comprehensive show on the theme of “German Expressionism”. Approximately 130 works, including 50 oil paintings and 80 drawings, prints and watercolours as well as several sculptures will be on view. Using a representative selection of works of a high artistic standard, the various groups and directions within Expressionism will be shown side by side. The selection of artists ranges from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Heckel, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and those belonging to the Munich group “Der Blaue Reiter” including Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky and August Macke to the individualist Lyonel Feininger and finally to Otto Dix, Georg Grosz and Max Beckmann. With this exhibition the Leopold Museum is also celebrating the fifth anniversary of its opening.

Address

Leopold Museum
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
phone +43 1 52 57 00
http://www.leopoldmuseum.org

Opening Hours

Monday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Thursday till 9 p.m., closed on Tuesday.

Description of the Museum

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

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