EXPERIENCE VIENNA 1900 AND EGON SCHIELE AT THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM WITH PORR

17.06.2025

Free Art Enjoyment during PORR NIGHT on 3rd July

The Leopold Museum’s longstanding cooperation partner PORR AG offers free admission and guided tours of the Vienna 1900 presentation every first Thursday of each month. The upcoming PORR NIGHT, held on Thursday, 3rd July, from 6 pm to 9 pm, affords visitors the unique opportunity to enjoy a special highlight – to see the successful exhibition Times of Change. Egon Schiele’s Last Years: 1914 – 1918 for free. This first comprehensive presentation dedicated to the exceptional Expressionist’s final years has drawn some 100,000 visitors to date. On 12th June, Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) would have celebrated his 135th birthday.

PORR NIGHT at the Leopold Museum

In 2025, the Leopold Museum continues its cooperation with PORR AG, inviting museum-goers every first Thursday of each month to visit the museum for free from 6 pm to 9 pm as part of the PORR NIGHT initiative. Acting as art patrons with a special interest in Viennese Modernism, PORR further offers free guided tours of the Leopold Museum’s permanent presentation Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism. Since the first PORR NIGHT was held in January 2022, thousands of art lovers have enjoyed a free cultural experience at the Leopold Museum.

Enjoying Summer at the Leopold Museum with PORR

In the summer of 2025, the Leopold Museum showcases highlights of art in Vienna around 1900 on two exhibition floors, featuring works from Jugendstil to Expressionism, including masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, and many others. The exquisite exhibits from the Leopold Collection, along with prominent permanent loans, afford the unique opportunity to delve into the singular atmosphere of the fin-de-siècle – an era whose groundbreaking artistic, intellectual and social advancements are still as fascinating today as ever.

Vienna 1900: Emphasis on Urban Development and Architecture

The many themes of the permanent exhibition Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism include urban development and architecture. This emphasis is also highlighted during the free guided tours offered as part of the PORR NIGHT initiative. The construction of the Vienna Ringstraße, which constituted the most comprehensive urban development project in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, led to a significant extension and concentration of the City of Vienna. The First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline, which was inaugurated in 1873 by Emperor Franz Joseph, supplied the entire Danube metropolis with clean drinking water, and went hand in hand with the construction of a huge system of water supply lines and sewage canals. Around 1900, the Vienna City Railway started operating, originally using steam-powered trains. Parts of the line of this interurban railway are used to this day by the Vienna underground and municipal railway.

Additional PORR NIGHT Highlight: The Major Schiele Exhibition Times of Change

Egon Schiele, who created his oeuvre over a period of less than ten years, is most famous for the key paintings and drawings he created from 1910, in which he processed his own mental states and, based on the human figure, addressed the self-questioning of an entire generation. Schiele’s later oeuvre, which he created from 1914 and which differs distinctly from his earlier works, is much less known. During those later years, his strokes became calmer, and his figures gained physical presence and realism. The changes that occurred in his private life and the historical events that happened from 1914 onwards – the outbreak of war, his wedding to Edith Harms (1893–1918) and his difficult life as a soldier – had a lasting impact on his oeuvre. The Leopold Museum’s exhibition Times of Change. Egon Schiele’s Last Years: 1914–1918 is the first to shine the spotlight on the artist’s work from 1914 to his untimely death at the age of only 28 in October 1918. Featuring 130 works from international museums and private collections, the presentation weaves together biographical and artistic aspects, and presents the previously unpublished diary of his wife Edith Schiele for the first time. The upcoming PORR NIGHT offers visitors free admission to this major Schiele exhibition, which is only on display until 13th July.

Innovation and Tradition – PORR from the Gründerzeit Era via Modernism to the Present

For more than 150 years, PORR has been setting new standards as an innovative and pioneering company. The corporation was involved in eminent building projects during the Gründerzeit era and Viennese Modernism, in constructions along the Ringstraße and for the 1873 Vienna World Fair at the Prater, built the Technical Museum in Vienna (1908) as well as the building of the Austrian National Bank, which was erected in 1912/13 to house the printing plant of the Austro-Hungarian Bank. Today, the corporation counts more than 20,000 employees, is one of the largest Austrian construction companies and among the top players in Europe. A full service provider, PORR offers all services in structural and civil engineering and infrastructure construction across the entire supply chain in the construction sector.

Free Art Enjoyment “Powered by PORR”

In addition to free admission, PORR NIGHT offers free guided tours of the permanent presentation Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism at 6.30 pm and 7 pm.

PORR NIGHT. Art Enjoyment in the Evening: Thurs., 3rd July 2025, free admission from 6 pm to 9 pm
Free guided tours, powered by PORR: 6.30 pm and 7 pm
Theme: Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism
Registration: from 6 pm at the cash desk*

 

*Owing to a limited number of participants, visitors are admitted on a “first come, first served” basis.

The offer is only valid for individual visitors.
For further information (in German) on the PORR NIGHT on Thurs., 3rd July, please visit.

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