25 January 2008 – 20 April 2008

Jörg Immendorff: What painting can mean to us

With a highly personal exhibition of works stemming exclusively from the Essl Collection, the collector-couple Agnes and Karlheinz Essl will pay tribute to the German artist Jörg
Immendorff, to whom they were linked by long-standing ties of friendship, and who died in
June 2007. Jörg Immendorff is counted among the most outstanding artists of the post-1945
period, who invariably adopted an unambiguous attitude as both a politically and socially
active person and as an artist.
On display will be more than 70 works, from paintings to drawings and sculptures, along with
texts and letters, covering his early oeuvre dating from the 1960s, through the large political
canvases of the 80s on to his late works, which frequently addressed existential issues.
>In meinem Salon ist Österreich< is a series of works specially painted for the collector-
couple. The centrepiece shows the collectors amid renowned Austrian artists, many of whom
were among Immendorff’s friends. This is rounded off by a first showing of the series of 32
preliminary sketches.

Address

Essl Museum - Contemporary Art
An der Donau-Au 1
3400 Klosterneuburg / Wien
phone +43 224 33 70 50 150
http://www.essl.museum

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday till 9 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The collection of international contemporanean art of Agnes and Karlheinz Essl consisting of 5.000 works offers a view on the art of the 20th and the beginning 21st centuries.

exhibition house opened 1999; architect: Heinz Tesar

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