Leopold Museum: Glamorous Fundraising Dinner in Gold and Black

28.05.2019

New presentation “Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism” as a splendid setting

“Black and Gold” was the motto of the Leopold Museum’s annual Fundraising Dinner held this year on 14th May 2019. The celebrated guests from the arts, culture and business partied under the banner of the museum’s extensive new presentation, which opened in March, entitled “Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism”. The proceeds of the evening will go towards the exhibition which, comprising some 1,300 exhibits, affords unique insights, unparalleled in their density and complexity, into the fascination of Vienna around 1900, and showcases the splendor and wealth of artistic and intellectual achievements of this era. The masterpieces of the Leopold Museum are complemented in this exhibition by eminent permanent loans from Austrian and international collections.

Following an atmospheric reception, a tour of the exhibition spanning three floors and an exclusive dinner of traditional Viennese cuisine, guests saw out the evening in high spirits in the “salon” to music by Niko Leopold’s K.u.K. Salonorchester.

Among the 350 guests invited by Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the Head of the Board of Directors of the Leopold Museum Josef Ostermayer and the Head of the Board of the Circle of Patrons, POST AG CEO Georg Pölzl, were Elisabeth Leopold, Diethard and Waltraud Leopold, board members Agnes Husslein-Arco, Werner Muhm and Carl Aigner, the entrepreneurs Frank and Claudia Albert (Supernova), Harald Friedrich (chairman of LLB Liechtensteinische Landesbank), Andrea Jungmann (Sotheby’s), Elisabeth Kamper (CEO of Falstaff), Herbert Koch, Alexander and Kaya Quester, Hans Raumauf (Wiener Städtische Versicherung, President of the Association of Friends of the Leopold Museum), Karl-Heinz Strauss (chairman of the board of PORR AG), media manager Horst Pirker, vice governor of the Austrian National Bank Gottfried Haber, Gabi Spiegelfeld, Clarissa Stadler, the gallery owners Wolfgang Bauer (bel etage), Alois “Lui” Wienerroither, Silvia Kovacek, Claudia Kovacek-Longin, Philipp Zetter, Sophie Zetter-Schweiger, publishers Christian and Nikolaus Brandstätter, journalist Nicole Adler, Elisabeth Auersperg-Breunner, museum theorist Dieter Bogner, Evi Höfer, head curator of the Van Gogh Museum Edwin Becker, the US collector and lender Richard Grubman, collector and Vienna 1900 expert Ernst Ploil, Edelbert and Angelika Köb, architect Carl Pruscha, Peter Weinhäupl and Sandra Tretter (Klimt Foundation), the artists Constantin Luser, Brigitte Kowanz, Xenia Hausner, Hubert Scheibl, Eva Schlegel, Walter Vopava, Manfred Bockelmann, Anna Jermolaewa, Martha Jungwirth, and many others.

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