LEOPOLD MUSEUM: 100,000TH VISITOR OF THE EXHIBITION GUSTAVE COURBET
15.05.2026
THE MUSEUM’S DIRECTOR HANS-PETER WIPPLINGER CONGRATULATES YUKI AOKI FROM JAPAN. THE SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITION IS ON DISPLAY UNTIL 21ST JUNE
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, the Director of the Leopold Museum and curator of the current exhibition Gustave Courbet. Realist and Rebel, was delighted to welcome Yuki Aoki from Japan as the 100,000th visitor of the Courbet exhibition today, Wednesday, 13th May. Wipplinger presented Aoki with a spring bouquet provided by BlumenRaumGestaltung and the comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Courbet presentation.
“The rush of visitors flocking to see our retrospective exhibition of the oeuvre of Gustave Courbet, the most important French realist painter, is not only a wonderful confirmation of the relevance of this exhibition project but also a deserved reward for the great efforts of the entire team at the Leopold Museum.”
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Director of the Leopold Museum
Yuki Aoki’s penchant for the works of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt means that this was not her first visit to the Leopold Museum. The lawyer specializing in European Law, who has a great affinity for art, comes from the Japanese capital Tokyo and has a second home in Vienna. She visited the Courbet exhibition together with her Japanese friend living in Rome, Yuki Shono. Both ladies were deeply impressed with this first comprehensive presentation of Courbet’s oeuvre in Austria.
THE EXHIBITION
With the large-scale retrospective Gustave Courbet. Realist and Rebel, the Leopold Museum presents the first major solo exhibition devoted to the exceptional French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) in Austria. Around 130 exhibits – including 90 paintings and 20 graphic works from all the periods of the artist’s oeuvre, as well as a large number of archival materials – afford a comprehensive overview of the painterly and graphic work of this pioneer of realism who, in his ground-breaking portraits, nudes, landscapes and still lifes, broke with the idealizing conventions of 19th-century art in a radical manner. The exhibition, curated by Hans-Peter Wipplinger and Niklaus Manuel Güdel, will be on display until Sunday, 21st June at the Leopold Museum.
On the exhibition Gustave Courbet
The exhibition was created in cooperation with Museum Folkwang.
From 17th July, the second edition of the exhibition will be shown in Germany with the title I, Gustave Courbet. Painter and Rebel at Museum Folkwang in Essen.
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