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Munch Chagall Picasso. The Batliner Collection


The Albertina houses one of Europe’s most important compilations of Modernist art in the form of the Batliner Collection.

Its permanent display starts off with such artists of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. Further highlights include examples of German Expressionism, with the groups of Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, (including paintings by Kirchner, Kandinsky, and Nolde) and the art of New Objectivity, with works by Wacker, Sedlacek, and Hofer. An in-depth focus on Austrian art comprises works by Kokoschka and paintings by Egger-Lienz. The great diversity of the Russian avant-garde is represented by paintings by Goncharova, Malevich, and Chagall.

The presentation is topped off by numerous chefs-d’oeuvre by Picasso, ranging from his early Cubist pictures and works from his mature period of the 1940s to superb prints that have not yet been exhibited and paintings from his experimental late period.

Beginning at the turn of the millennium onward the Batliners began collecting the diverse painted output of the present era: Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, and Arnulf Rainer. 


 
Herbert Batliner, one of the greatest art collectors and patrons of our time, passed away on Saturday, 8 June 2019, after a long and serious illness at the age of 90 in Vaduz.⠀

In the year 2000, he donated the Propter Homines Hall to the ALBERTINA, in which the museum has since been able to show all major exhibitions from Dürer to Raphael or to Vincent van Gogh. In 2007, the Liechtenstein lawyer and trustee gave his valuable art collection to the ALBERTINA. Today it is one of the world's most important collections of Modernist painting and in recent years has become the basis of many successful exhibitions by Picasso, Magritte, Max Ernst and Matisse.

Monet to Picasso. Masterworks from the Albertina. The Batliner Collection
Monet to Picasso. Masterworks from the Albertina. The Batliner Collection
It is under the title Monet to Picasso. Masterworks from the Albertina. The Batliner Collection that the Albertina presents its extensive holdings of classical modernist paintings, which come from the Batliner Collection. The overview of the most interesting chapters of 130 years of art history made possible by this permanent collection is unique both in Vienna and in Austria.
Ed. by Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Limited special edition 2018
224 pages
21 x 17 cm / Softcover
German EUR 16,90
English EUR 16,90
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Marc Chagall
The Kite, 1926
© Bildrecht, Wien 2019 | The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection


Pablo Picasso
Woman in a green hat, 1947
Oil on canvas
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019





Oskar Kokoschka
Im Garten II, 1934
Öl auf Leinwand
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection



Oskar Kokoschka
London, kleine Themse-Landschaft, 1926
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection



Emil Nolde
Moonlit Night, 1914
Oil on Canvas
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection
© Nolde Foundation Seebüll



Maurice de Vlaminck
Still Life with Fruit Bowl, 1905-1906
Oil on canvas
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection


Alexej von Jawlensky
Young Girl in a Flowered Hat, 1910
Oil on cardboard
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection



Amedeo Modigliani
Weiblicher Halbakt, 1918
Oil on Canvas
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner Collection


Francis Bacon
Seated Figure, 1960
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection © Francis Bacon: Estate of Francis Bacon/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019




René Magritte
The Enchanted Domain, 1953
Öl auf Leinwand
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019





Max Beckmann
Woman with Cat, 1942
Öl auf Leinwand
The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019


Edvard Munch
Winter Landscape,
Öl auf Leinwand
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection © Edvard Munch/The Munch Museum/The Munch Ellingsen Group


Paul Signac
Venice, the Pink Cloud, 1909
© The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Batliner collection


Kazimir Malewitsch
Mann in suprematistischer Landschaft, ca 1930 - 31
Öl auf Leinwand
Albertina, Wien. Sammlung Batliner

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