The exhibition, which draws both from the Neue Galerie permanent collection and from collections in the United States and Europe, fill both the second and third floors of the museum. The second floor will be devoted to fine art from the period, examiningthemes of changing representations of women, psychological portraits of the modern man, and the crossover among art, medicine, and psychology in the paintings of artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl, and Oskar Kokoschka. Examples of turn-of-the-century women’s fashion will also be on view. The third floor begins with a room dedicated to the work of architect Otto Wagner, father of the modern movement in Vienna. One of the two remaining large galleries is dedicated to the ground-breaking innovations of the artists of the Vienna Secession. The other will explore turn-of-the-century decorative artists’ two divergent paths to Modernism: one exemplified by the members of the Wiener Werkstätte (Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche) and their desire to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, and the other by the strict formalism of Adolf Loos. In a small fourth room, the revolutionary music of Viennese composers such as Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg will be explored.
SHOPS AND RESTAURANT
We've visited the Galerie, its marvelous — though pricey — shops and Café Sabarsky. The food is delicious and the interior resembles its intended European setting; the experience is a welcome interlude from the city bustle of Fifth Avenue.
The Design Shop has a wide selection of goods ranging from a Han Feng collection to items for your pet dog.
CATALOGUE
The
Birth of the Modern: Style and Identity in Vienna 1900 that accompanies this exhibition is published by Hirmer Verlag. The publication takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining not only the art and artists of the period, but also literature, psychology, philosophy, and musical and social history. It is edited by the co-curators of the exhibition, and features contributions from scholars Philipp Blom, Claude Cernuschi, Jean Clair, Alessandra Comini, Geoffrey Howes, Jill Lloyd, Christian Weikop, Christian Witt-Dörring.
Editor: Links to a website with a Vienna overhead map, the official homepage of the city today and the city plan, circa 1850: http://depts.washington.edu/vienna/. Other links are available to Literature, History, Music, Psychology and Theater.
Images:
(2) Corset, Designer Unknown, ca. 1880-85. Embroidered silk, Wien Museum, Vienna.Photograph © Wien Museum, Vienna
(3) Hans Makart, Hanna Klinkosch. Oil on canvas. Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Vaduz-Vienna.Photograph © Sammlungen des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein, Vaduz-Vienna
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