25th Anniversary Exhibition

To celebrate this milestone year, "25th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterworks from the Neue Galerie" underscores the museum's unique mission: to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic culture of the early 20th century, and to make the best of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry. This special presentation fills the entirety of the Neue Galerie's landmark Museum Mile building, featuring collection highlights – such as Gustav Klimt's _Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I_ (1907). Today, the museum is world-renowned for its collection of early twentieth-century Austrian and German art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors. The collection features art from Vienna around 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed between the fine arts (of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Alfred Kubin) and the decorative arts (created at the Wiener Werkstätte by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche, and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner). The collection of German art focuses on important movements of the early twentieth century. Max Beckmann, as well as Expressionist artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Gabriele Münter, receive special attention. The Bauhaus is well represented, with strength in the area of decorative arts, and a selection of notable works by Paul Klee.