This autumn the Leopold Museum is presenting a comprehensive show on the theme of “German Expressionism”. Approximately 130 works, including 50 oil paintings and 80 drawings, prints and watercolours as well as several sculptures will be on view. Using a representative selection of works of a high artistic standard, the various groups and directions within Expressionism will be shown side by side. The selection of artists ranges from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Heckel, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and those belonging to the Munich group “Der Blaue Reiter” including Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky and August Macke to the individualist Lyonel Feininger and finally to Otto Dix, Georg Grosz and Max Beckmann. With this exhibition the Leopold Museum is also celebrating the fifth anniversary of its opening.


German Expressionists from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
The show has been made possible by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, which has provided numerous items on loan from its inventory of major German Expressionist works. Both the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the heirs of the collector Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, who passed away in 2002 and whose daughter Francesca von Hapsburg deserves special mention, have provided some of the greatest works of German Expressionism.

Further important works on loan have also been provided by the Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Nolde Stiftung Seebüll as well as by public and private collections in Germany, France, Holland, Liechtenstein, Scotland, Switzerland and Spain.

Virtual Panorama
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Guided tours

Workshops
Expressionism or the Omnipotence of Colour

Painting Changes the World – A Foray into Modernism

Lecture

Expressionist films