14 September 2007 – 6 April 2008

Monet bis Picasso - The collection Batliner

At the beginning of May 2007, the art collection of Rita and Herbert Batliner totalling 500 works was transferred to the Albertina as a permanent loan. The Batliner Collection includes major works by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Chagall, Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, Kandinsky, Sam Francis, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon and is one of the leading European private collections.

Starting point of this major presentation is French Impressionist painting, with paintings, pastels and gouaches by Monet, Renoir und Degas. These are followed by work groups by Cezanne and Toulouse-Lautrec, also Bonnard, Vuillard und Signac. High points of the show are without doubt the portrait of a girl in pastel by Auguste Renoir, the late "Water Lily" picture by Monet, the "Young Woman in a Blouse" by Modigliani, and the work group by Pablo Picasso.

Another key section focuses on German Expressionism, with the two artists' groups "Die Brücke" and "Der Blaue Reiter". Alongside these are outstanding examples of Surrealist art, with works by Joan Miró, Max Ernst und René Magritte.

This exhibition of the Batliner Collection is being joined by a selection of 20 major pictures from the Forberg Collection, which was likewise recently transferred to the Albertina. The foremost works here are by Paul Klee and his contemporaries Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, August Macke and Franz Marc. The exhibition finally culminates in the late work of Pablo Picasso, as well as sculptures, drawings and paintings by Alberto Giacometti.

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Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1
1010 Wien
phone +43 1 53 48 30
http://www.Albertina.at

Opening Hours

Monday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday till 9 p.m.

Description of the Museum

The Albertina accommodates one of the largest and most precious graphic art collections in the world. There are drawings and prints dating from all major epochs, ranging from late gothic to contemporanean art.

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