Melbourne, AU – The National Galley of Victoria is proud to present the eighth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, “Vienna: Art & Design – Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos” will bring together an outstanding collection of almos…
Dazzling Display by the Greatest Viennese Artists Opens at the National Gallery of Victoria
MELBOURNE.- Stylish, provocative, rebellious and unforgettable – the world has seen nothing like Vienna in 1900. The National Gallery of Victoria today opened Vienna: Art & Design, a dazzling display of over 300 extraordinary works by the greatest…
U.S. Court of Appeals Confirms Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is Rightful Owner of Kokoschka Painting
BOSTON, MA.- Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The decision affirmed United States Dist…
Court: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston can Keep Work Sold in Nazi Era
BOSTON (AP).- A federal appeals court has ruled that Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts can retain ownership of a 1913 painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka that was sold during the Nazi occupation of Austria. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rule…
Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Basel Explores Vienna: 1900, Klimt, Schiele and their Times
BASEL.- With the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna around 1900 was one of the cradles of modern art. The Fondation Beyeler is mounting the first comprehensive exhibition ever devoted in Switzerland to this theme, curated by Barbara Steffe…
Rudolf Leopold, Austrian Art Collector, Dies Today at 85
VIENNA (AP).- Rudolf Leopold, who assembled Austria’s largest private art collection, including works allegedly stolen by the Nazis, died Tuesday at the age of 85. Leopold died at a hospital in the Austrian capital after suffering multiple organ failur…