GUSTAVE COURBET.
Realist and Rebel

19th Feb.–21st Jun. 2026
Level -1

With this large-scale retrospective presentation, the Leopold Museum is dedicat- ing the first extensive monographic exhibition to the exceptional French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) in Austria. Around 130 exhibits – including 90 paint- ings 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.

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