Masterpieces at the Leopold Museum, Vienna
The recently inaugurated Museums Quarter complex in Vienna boasts two new museum buildings, one in white stone, the other in black. The white one, the Leopold Museum, is home to the extensive holdings of Dr. Rudolph Leopold who, after the Second World War, began assembling an important collection of early modern Austrian art. Works by the Expressionist Egon Schiele are its highlight. With more than 50 paintings and numerous drawings, the Leopolds is the largest Schiele collection in the world. The fraught sexuality of the artists work continues to hold lasting interest for audiences, but the Leopold is more than its Schieles. Medieval art, primitive art and Vienna Secession furniture show alongside some truly excellent Klimts and surprises like Richard Gerstl, whose impastos painted in Vienna before 1910 are as fresh as any contemporary painting anywhere.
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