21 September 2007 – 28 January 2008

Between the wars - Austrian art from 1918-1938

The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the disillusioning experience of the cruelties of war gave rise to widespread scepticism regarding human civilisability. Alternative conceptions of life and social utopias were supplanted by a phase of declining ambitions. In Austria, the years between the First and the Second World War were predominated by the search for a national identity: the era’s painting is marked by traditionalism and a sceptical relationship to modernism. Patriotic art, religious revivalism and Magic Realism conjured up an idyllic vision of the contemporary situation (neo-romanticism), with the art of the Old Masters serving as a renewed model. Simultaneously, the Expressionists of the second generation linked expressive pathos with Cubo-Futurist developments. However, only a small number of artists, such as Friedrich Kiesler and the Viennese Kineticists, explicitly avowed their allegiance to the avant-garde.

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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