WIEN.- From classical modernism to contemporary art the exhibition combines chronological order and the confrontation of works from different generations of artists that exhibit correspondences in their subject matter. This makes art history since the beginning of modernism visible as a living dialogue between the past and the present. The focus is on art works that led to decisive changes and developments in both classical modernism and in the 1960s and 1970s. This is fundamental to an understanding of contemporary art with its multimedia and interdisciplinary approaches. Figurative and abstract tendencies along with the subject of figure and landscape are structural principles in the museum’s holdings of classical modernism. They can be found in the works of Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, František Kupka, Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso. Comparing current works, such as those by Gerhard Richter or Herbert Brandl, not only reveals the importance of the classics fro