Description
The Neue Galerie is a museum of early 20th-century German and Austrian art and design, in a 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion by Carrère and Hastings at 86th Street, on Museum Mile. Opened in 2001, it has Klimt, Schiele and the Vienna of 1900 at its heart.
The star is Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, on the second floor among works by Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and the craftsmen of the Wiener Werkstätte. The third floor turns to Germany: Kandinsky, Klee, Kirchner and the Bauhaus. The museum also has a Viennese café, Café Sabarsky.
The museum was the project of Ronald Lauder and the art dealer Serge Sabarsky. In 2006 Lauder bought the Klimt portrait for it from Maria Altmann, for a price reported at $135 million. The painting's story is told in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.
The star is Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, on the second floor among works by Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and the craftsmen of the Wiener Werkstätte. The third floor turns to Germany: Kandinsky, Klee, Kirchner and the Bauhaus. The museum also has a Viennese café, Café Sabarsky.
The museum was the project of Ronald Lauder and the art dealer Serge Sabarsky. In 2006 Lauder bought the Klimt portrait for it from Maria Altmann, for a price reported at $135 million. The painting's story is told in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.