Masterpieces of German and Austrian art and design
A slice of Vienna on Fifth Avenue, The Neue Galerie New York (meaning “New Gallery” in German) is a handsome museum dedicated to German and Austrian art and design made between 1890 and 1940. Artists in the permanent collection include Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, as well as members of the Wiener Werkstätte and other decorative artists. Temporary exhibitions cover art from the same period. The museum opened in 2001 in a building completed in 1914 by Carrère & Hastings, the firm behind the New York Public Library. The museum was founded by Ronald S. Lauder, a businessman, philanthropist and art collector, in tribute to his friend Serge Sabarsky, a leading New York gallerist for German and Austrian art, who died in 1996. The museum owns Klimt’s famous “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907), once the world’s most expensive painting.
