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A gift certificate for a Docent-Led Tour for Four at Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Avenue.

To schedule your tour, contact the Education and Visitor Services Department with advance notice of at least two weeks.

Certificate expires September 30, 2020..

Neue Galerie New York is a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors. The collection features art from Vienna circa 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed between the fine arts (of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Alfred Kubin) and the decorative arts (created at the Wiener Werkstätte by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche, and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos, Joseph Urban, and Otto Wagner).

AUSTRIAN MASTERWORKS FROM THE NEUE GALERIE
September 5, 2019 - June 8, 2020

Highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of Austrian art from the period 1890 to 1940 are on view, including major works by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, and Egon Schiele. 

The display features an extraordinary selection of Klimt’s paintings, including the early portrait of Gertha Loew (1902) and the “golden style” portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907). These are complemented by a work with an unidentified sitter: The Black Feathered Hat (1910), which shows Klimt’s careful study of the art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The late unfinished works, Ria Munk III (1917) and The Dancer (1916-17), offer unparalleled insight into Klimt’s working method. In both, he initially sketched an outline of the composition in charcoal and then painstakingly filled in the details with oil. In addition, two of Klimt’s highly coveted landscapes are on view—Park at Kammer Castle (1909) and the Forester’s House in Weissenbach II (Garden) (1914), which were painted during his summer holidays on the Attersee, a popular lake in the Salzkammergut region of upper Austria. 

An adjoining gallery features a prominent group of paintings by Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. Especially noteworthy are the early Expressionist portraits by Kokoschka, including Martha Hirsch (1909), Peter Altenberg (1909), Ludwig Ritter von Janikowski (1909), Rudolf Blümner (1910), and Emil Löwenbach (1914). Two late landscapes by Egon Schiele, Stein on the Danube, Seen from the South (Large) (1913) and Town among Greenery (The Old City III) (1917), are complemented by Schiele’s ethereal Danaë (1909).  This early work, completed in oil and metallic paint, was done when the young artist was still under the influence of his mentor Klimt. 

Three sculptures by George Minne—The Kneeling Youths (1898) and The Bather (ca. 1899)—are notable both for their artistry and for their provenance. Born in Belgium, Minne exhibited his work at the Vienna Secession, where he quickly drew acclaim. Both Kokoschka and Schiele were influenced by Minne’s example, with his attenuated forms and evocations of pathos. The Kneeling Youths were originally owned by Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and were donated to the museum in 2007 by their heirs. The Bather once belonged to Fritz Waerndorfer, the initial financial backer of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops).

Icons of modern design round out the presentation, including Josef Hoffmann’s Sitzmaschine and Adolf Loos’s Knieschwimmer, as well as an exceptional array of luxurious silver objects made by the Wiener Werkstätte after designs by Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche. A stunning group of mirror frames by Peche in carved and gilt wood are highlights of the show, along with a selection of clocks by Loos, Hans Prutscher, and Joseph Urban.

MADAME D’ORA
February 20, 2020 - June 8, 2020 

Born Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer worked under the name d’Ora and was later dubbed Madame d’Ora. She was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin-de-siècle Vienna, and went on to create one of the most stylish Art Deco studios in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s. Her models included Josephine Baker, Collette, and Pablo Picasso, among many others.

The exhibition will consist of sections devoted to the different periods of her life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society photographer, through her survival during the Holocaust. This will be the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d’Ora ever presented in the United States. The curator is Dr. Monika Faber, director of the Photoinstitut Bonartes in Vienna and frequent collaborator with the Neue Galerie.

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Winner pays postage/shipping & insurance OR can pick up item after March 22, 2020 at an upper west side of Manhattan location tbd.