The Albertina exhibits Masterworks of Modern Art from The Batliner Collection

Gottfried Helnwein - Red Mouse 2, 2008 - Oil & acrylic on canvas - © VBK, Wien 2009 / Gottfried Helnwein - Photo: © Studio Helnwein

Vienna, Austria - Starting at the end of May, works from the Batliner Collection, which came to the Albertina as a permanent loan in 2007, will be shown in a new presentation occupying 3,000 square metres of space. French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, the Fauves, German Expressionism and the Russian avant-garde are represented by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The exhibition continues into the latter half of the 20th century with important late works by Picasso and paintings by Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon, and concludes with three leading contemporary artists, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer.


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