Leopold Museum

5 April - 10 September 2023

For the first time in Austria, the Leopold Museum presents highlights of the Würth Collection, one of the largest private collections in Europe and one of the most important art collections worldwide, in an extensive show. Leopold Museum Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger has selected 200 masterpieces out of almost 20,000 objects, combining works of classical modernism and contemporary art. Visitors are taken on a unique journey through around 100 years of art history.

The highlights include works by Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Max Liebermann, Gabriele Münter, Max Beckmann, Max Pechstein and Hans Arp. Moreover, there are pieces by Fernando Botero, Per Kirkeby, the artist couple Christo and Jeanne Claude, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer, as well as outstanding Austrian artists such as Fritz Wotruba, Maria Lassnig, Arnulf Rainer and Erwin Wurm.

6 October 2023 - 25 February 2024

Max Oppenheimer was an Expressionist of the first hour. Born in Vienna in 1885, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Arts in Prague. He participated in the legendary exhibitions Kunstschau Wien 1908 and Internationale Kunstschau Wien 1909, where he met numerous progressive artists of the time, including Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and Albert Paris Gütersloh (1887-1973). The friendship with Schiele lasted for years and manifested itself, among others, in the joint work in Schiele's studio (winter 1910/11). The initial friendship with Kokoschka however resulted in a rivalry between the avant-garde artists.

With this long overdue, large-scale show, the Leopold Museum sheds new light on Max Oppenheimer's unjustly forgotten and groundbreaking work. The role of the artist and his networks is explored through pieces of his contemporaries Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele.