THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM
The Leopold Collection is one of the most
museum in the heart of Vienna and the largest important collections of modern Austrian art
cultural property of the Museum Quarter of in the world. More than 5,000 exhibits were
Vienna. Egon Schiele throughout the world, collected by Rudolf and his wife Elizabeth
but also Gustav Klimt's masterpieces of Leopold for five decades. In 1994, the
"Death and Life" outside the price, as it is collection was consolidated by Rudolph
probably the most important figurative Leopold and the Austrian National Bank in the
painting. In no other museum in Vienna can private fund of the Leopold Museum - a non-
one approach the legendary "Fin de siècle profit private foundation.
Vienna" and witness the birth of modernity.
For several years, the Habsburg empire has It took five decades to collect the collection.
evolved from strict historicism and the In 2001, she found her permanent place.
sympathy of impressionism to a worldwide
unique "Viennese modernism" that embraces
Klimt and Schiele, as well as Oskar Kokoshka,
Richard Gerstl, Koloman Moser and many
other artists who are all represented by major
works in the Leopold Museum.
The Leopold Museum is a unique and active