New York Gallery

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The Neue Galerie on Museum Mile in the Upper East Side
Gustav Klimt , Adele Bloch-Bauer I , 1907, oil, silver and gold on canvas

The Neue Galerie New York is a museum in New York City for German and Austrian art of the early 20th century . It is located on Museum Mile , in the south of the Carnegie Hill district in the Upper East Side in the New York borough of Manhattan at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. The building was built as the home of the industrialist William Starr Miller II (1856-1935) in 1914 by the architects Carrère and Hastings .

history

The museum has been run since 1968 by the art dealer Serge Sabarsky and his close friend, businessman and philanthropist Ronald Lauder, as the "Serge Sabarsky Gallery" at 987 Madison Avenue .

In 1994, both of them bought today's domicile at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research . The previous owner was Grace Wilson Vanderbilt , wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III . The elegant New York townhouse, built in the neo-baroque Louis Treize style by the architects of the New York Public Library John Mervin Carrère and Thomas Hastings , was first moved into in 1914 by the industrialist William Starr Miller .

After Sabarsky's death in 1996, Lauder began integrating his valuable personal art collection into the museum, making it a high-profile museum.

In 2001, the New Gallery, which was subtly renovated by the German interior designer Annabelle Selldorf, was reopened. The exhibition rooms can accommodate a maximum of 350 visitors. The museum also has a bookstore, a library-style design shop and two Viennese cafés .

collection

The Neue Galerie collection is divided into two areas. The first floor is dedicated to the Austrian art of the early 20th century (works by Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele , Oskar Kokoschka , among others ), the second floor to the German, mainly Expressionist art of that era (works by Paul Klee , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Dix , George Grosz , Lyonel Feininger , Wassily Kandinsky ).

In June 2006, Lauder bought Klimt's oil painting Adele Bloch-Bauer I for the Neue Galerie for 135 million US dollars at the highest price ever paid for a painting. In November of the same year, he acquired Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting Berlin Street Scene, previously owned by the Berliner Brücke-Museum, for 38.1 million US dollars.

In 2016 the gallery restituted a yellow nude acquired in 1999 to the heiress, but acquired the painting immediately afterwards at the current market price .

Exhibitions

  • 2010: Otto Dix
  • 2010/11: Postcards from the Wiener Werkstätte
  • 2012: The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century. Germany, Austria, and France . With catalog.
  • 2014: Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.neuegalerie.org/content/mission-statement
  2. ^ Alison Fortier: A History Lover's Guide to New York City. History Press, Charleston (SC) 2016, entry Neue Galerie .
  3. ^ The yellow file for the rightful heir in FAZ of September 29, 2016, page 11


Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 52.5 "  N , 73 ° 57 ′ 37.5"  W.