Batliner Collection
The Batliner Collection forms the core of the permanent collection at the Albertina in Vienna. It had been built by the collector couple Rita and Herbert Batliner since the 1960s and became the property of the museum in 2007. The collection includes around 500 works from French Impressionism to contemporary art.
The collection
The collection begins chronologically with works of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Edgar Degas , Paul Cézanne and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . These include Monet's Water Lily Pond, the Two Dancers by Degas and Cézannes Valley of the Arc with a viaduct and a pine tree and Château Noir and the Sainte-Victoire mountain range .
It contains works of Fauvism , for example by Georges Braque , André Derain and Henri Matisse and the expressionist artist groups Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter , by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Wassily Kandinsky and Emil Nolde .
Another focus of the collection is on the Russian avant-garde with paintings of constructivism , cubo-futurism , neo-primitivism and suprematism . This includes a group of works by Marc Chagall and groups of works by Natalia Goncharova , Lyubov Popova and Michael Larionow , as well as a major work by Kasimir Malewitsch .
Both figurative and abstract surrealism is represented with paintings and sculptures by Max Ernst , Paul Delvaux , René Magritte and Joan Miró . Another focus of the collection is on the work of Pablo Picasso in the form of a total of 40 works, including ten paintings, many drawings and unique ceramics.
With exhibits by Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon , the collection extends to art from the second half of the 20th century and ends with works by Gerhard Richter , Georg Baselitz , Anselm Kiefer and Alex Katz .
history
Attorney and financial trustee Herbert Batliner and his wife Rita Batliner began collecting art in the 1960s. From the beginning, the painting of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism was a focus of the collection. In addition, they focused on Pablo Picasso from the start. In the course of his diverse travel activities, Herbert Batliner got to know and appreciate the Russian avant-garde, and he was particularly fascinated by the holdings in the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam, the Guggenheim Museum , New York, the Museum Ludwig , Cologne and the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg . The couple brought together art of the Russian avant-garde between 1905 and 1935.
In 2007 the collection became the property of the Albertina Museum. With this expansion of the collection it became possible for the house to realize a permanent exhibition from its own holdings.
Web links
- Museum website: The permanent collection of the Albertina - Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection
- The standard: Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection