To celebrate this milestone year, Neue Galerie New York presents “25th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterworks from the Neue Galerie,” a celebratory installation of Austrian and German fine and decorative arts drawn primarily from the permanent collection. The opening offers visitors access to the galleries for the first time following a successful restoration project on the museum's historic building. The exhibition underscores the museum’s unique mission: to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic culture of the early twentieth century, and to make the best of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry. Key works from the collection, including Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), as well as selected recent acquisitions, will commemorate the occasion. Together, they contribute to the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) that creates the unique jewel-box atmosphere of Neue Galerie New York.
The Neue Galerie is world-renowned for its holdings of early twentieth-century Austrian and German art, displayed on two exhibition floors. Donations from co-founder Ronald S. Lauder, alongside major gifts from the estate of Estée Lauder and from the Serge and Vally Sabarsky Foundation, form the core of the museum’s collection. Other generous donations have been made by the Bloch-Bauer family, the Manley family, Harry C. Sigman, Irving and Jackie Blum, and others over the years. Many of these are highlighted in this presentation.
The show is curated by Neue Galerie Director, Renée Price and Janis Staggs, Director of Curatorial, Neue Galerie New York.
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