- Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum, housed in the
Museumsquartier inVienna ,Austria , is home to one of the largest collections of modernAustrian art , featuring artists such asEgon Schiele ,Gustav Klimt ,Oskar Kokoschka andRichard Gerstl .It contains the world's largest Egon Schiele Collection.
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. In 2001 the Leopold Museum was opened.
The core of the collection consists of Austrian art of the first half of the 20th century, including key paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, showing the gradual transformation from the
Wiener Secession , theArt Nouveau /Jugendstil movement in Austria to Expressionism. The historical context is illustrated by major Austrian works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries.External links
* [http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/english/ Leopold Museum]
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