Leopold Museum Vienna, Austria
The Vienna Secession exhibition of an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. They resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles. Their most influential architectural work was the Secession Building designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich as a venue for expositions of the group. Their official magazine was called Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring), which published highly stylised and influential works of graphic art. In 1905 the group itself split, when some of the most prominent members, including Klimt, Wagner, and Hoffmann, resigned in a dispute over priorities, but it continued to function, and still functions today, from its headquarters in the Secession Building.

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Amazing: the Würth Collection

The title is no coincidence. The Amazing exhibition at the Leopold Museum brings us a series of masterpieces covering the last 100 years of art; all drawn from the prestigious Würth Collection. Around 200 works Features Picasso, Beckmann, Richter, Magritte, Kiefer, Sisley, Lassnig & many more

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MuseumsQuartier Vienna Austria
Spread over 90,000m2 in central Vienna and encompassing 60 cultural institutions, the MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. Nothing is off limits at the MuseumsQuartier. Historic architecture meets contemporary design. High culture meets subcultures. The spectrum ranges from fine art, architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature, children’s culture, game culture, and street art to design and photography.
The MuseumsQuartier was built in the eighteenth century as Vienna’s imperial stables for around 600 horses and 200 carriages and was designed by the famous Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Together with the Hofburg Palace, the New Hofburg Palace, and the Museums of Art and Natural History, the stable complex was originally intended to form one end of the so-called “Kaiserforum,” planned as a complete urban ensemble. The main frontage, a baroque façade 400 m in length, was completed in 1725. Between 1850 and 1854, the Winter Riding Hall in classical style was added in what is now the MQ Main Courtyard.
However, the most striking features of the complex are the new buildings constructed as part of its conversion into the MuseumsQuartier (1998-2001). They were designed by the Austrian architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner and create a space that brings together existing historical structures with contemporary architecture.
Entering the MuseumsQuartier through the Main Entrance in the Fischer von Erlach Wing, visitors come to the MQ Main Courtyard, one of the largest enclosed squares in the city. Straight ahead is the former Winter Riding Hall – now the Halle E+G performance and event venue with the new Kunsthalle Wien behind. To either side, positioned at a slight angle, stand new buildings: to the left the Leopold Museum and to the right the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok). There is a special relationship between the two buildings and they take reference points from both the layout of the city center and Vienna’s 7th District located behind the MuseumsQuartier. The architecture also responds to the different collections housed in each institution.
The Leopold Museum’s pale structure takes up the right-angled positioning of the former imperial museums and lengthens the axis of what would have been the “Kaiserforum.” The museum’s external surfaces, including the roof, are faced with white limestone, a material that symbolizes the historical weight of the Leopold Collection inside. Exuding elegance and erudition, the stone cube rises to a height of 24 meters, with three underground levels taking it 13 meters beneath street level. The galleries are arranged around an inner atrium and the upper levels are flooded with light.
The mumok, with its façade of dark grey basalt, stands in stark contrast. The curved roof makes it seem as if the museum has just risen from the depths. The edges of the building are rounded, creating the impression of a body taking shape, in contrast to the precise angularity of the Leopold Museum. The mumok has two underground and three upper levels, which are linked internally by 41-meter high space. The entrances to the Leopold Museum and mumok are at four meters above street level in order to lessen and relativize the steep incline leading up to the 7th District.
Different again, the Kunsthalle Wien is clad entirely in red clinker bricks and is reminiscent of a production workshop. This is a reference to its focus on temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. As a free-standing structure, the Kunsthalle is tucked in tightly alongside the former Winter Riding School, with its tiled roof overlapping the latter’s roof edge. The Kunsthalle Wien has no openings for daylight other than narrow slit windows at each end. It is a lighting concept that deliberately uses artificial light throughout for viewing art.
Manfred Wehdorn was the main architect responsible for renovating and adapting the structures that are subject to preservation orders, in particular the Fischer von Erlach Wing, which now houses the Q21. Austrian architects were commissioned to design interventions within the historic baroque building stock.

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MuseumsQuartier Vienna Austria
Spread over 90,000m2 in central Vienna and encompassing 60 cultural institutions, the MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. Nothing is off limits at the MuseumsQuartier. Historic architecture meets contemporary design. High culture meets subcultures. The spectrum ranges from fine art, architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature, children’s culture, game culture, and street art to design and photography.
The MuseumsQuartier was built in the eighteenth century as Vienna’s imperial stables for around 600 horses and 200 carriages and was designed by the famous Austrian architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. Together with the Hofburg Palace, the New Hofburg Palace, and the Museums of Art and Natural History, the stable complex was originally intended to form one end of the so-called “Kaiserforum,” planned as a complete urban ensemble. The main frontage, a baroque façade 400 m in length, was completed in 1725. Between 1850 and 1854, the Winter Riding Hall in classical style was added in what is now the MQ Main Courtyard.
However, the most striking features of the complex are the new buildings constructed as part of its conversion into the MuseumsQuartier (1998-2001). They were designed by the Austrian architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner and create a space that brings together existing historical structures with contemporary architecture.
Entering the MuseumsQuartier through the Main Entrance in the Fischer von Erlach Wing, visitors come to the MQ Main Courtyard, one of the largest enclosed squares in the city. Straight ahead is the former Winter Riding Hall – now the Halle E+G performance and event venue with the new Kunsthalle Wien behind. To either side, positioned at a slight angle, stand new buildings: to the left the Leopold Museum and to the right the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok). There is a special relationship between the two buildings and they take reference points from both the layout of the city center and Vienna’s 7th District located behind the MuseumsQuartier. The architecture also responds to the different collections housed in each institution.
The Leopold Museum’s pale structure takes up the right-angled positioning of the former imperial museums and lengthens the axis of what would have been the “Kaiserforum.” The museum’s external surfaces, including the roof, are faced with white limestone, a material that symbolizes the historical weight of the Leopold Collection inside. Exuding elegance and erudition, the stone cube rises to a height of 24 meters, with three underground levels taking it 13 meters beneath street level. The galleries are arranged around an inner atrium and the upper levels are flooded with light.
The mumok, with its façade of dark grey basalt, stands in stark contrast. The curved roof makes it seem as if the museum has just risen from the depths. The edges of the building are rounded, creating the impression of a body taking shape, in contrast to the precise angularity of the Leopold Museum. The mumok has two underground and three upper levels, which are linked internally by 41-meter high space. The entrances to the Leopold Museum and mumok are at four meters above street level in order to lessen and relativize the steep incline leading up to the 7th District.
Different again, the Kunsthalle Wien is clad entirely in red clinker bricks and is reminiscent of a production workshop. This is a reference to its focus on temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. As a free-standing structure, the Kunsthalle is tucked in tightly alongside the former Winter Riding School, with its tiled roof overlapping the latter’s roof edge. The Kunsthalle Wien has no openings for daylight other than narrow slit windows at each end. It is a lighting concept that deliberately uses artificial light throughout for viewing art.
Manfred Wehdorn was the main architect responsible for renovating and adapting the structures that are subject to preservation orders, in particular the Fischer von Erlach Wing, which now houses the Q21. Austrian architects were commissioned to design interventions within the historic baroque building stock.

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