Monet to Picasso
The Batliner Collection
ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
View of Vétheuil, 1881
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
The Water Lily Pond, 1917-1919
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
The ALBERTINA is home to one of Europe’s largest and most outstanding collections of classical modernist paintings: The Batliner Collection. It was turned over to the ALBERTINA by Rita and Herbert Batliner in 2007, opening a new chapter in the museum’s history. From French Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism (including works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Braque, and Matisse) to masterpieces of the expressionist artists’ groups Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter (including paintings by Kirchner, Kandinsky, and Nolde) and on to the Russian avant-garde and numerous works by Pablo Picasso, this permanent exhibition presents all of modernism’s revolutionary ideas.
Two Dancers, 1905
Pastell auf Papier
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Man in a Suprematist Landscape, ca. 1930/31
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
The 2007 decision by Herbert and Rita Batliner to turn their collection over to the public, along with their choice of the ALBERTINA Museum as a partner, enriched the museum landscape in a lasting way for contemporary art, too. 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.
ALBERTINA Museum
Albertinaplatz 1 - 1010 Vienna
