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Between the Wars The year 1918 marked a turning point - the death of the artists Klimt, Schiele and Koloman. Moser meant that there was a considerable hiatus in national artistic activity. Because of the unstable political and economic circumstances rather than solely for artistic reasons, a number of artists decided to take long breaks abroad in the years between the wars. In Austria itself the exchange of ideas with France and neighbouring countries was somewhat limited, so the "isms" of the first two decades of the nineteenth century were somewhat slow to take root here. A few Austrian painters such as Herbert Boeckl and the Nötscher Kreis stand out particularly as successors to Cézanne, as exponents of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and especially of late Expressionism. At the beginning of the 1920s, Nötsch, a small town in Carinthia, became the centre of a loosely connected artistic community. Many outstanding paintings by Anton Kolig, the leading figure in the Nötscher Kreis, are on view in the LEOPOLD MUSEUM, together with pictures by Franz Wiegele. |
 Anton Kolig, Longing, 1922 |
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