The Leopold Museum was opened in 2001, in a brand new building (a large white cube), in the Vienna Museums Quarter. The museum is based on the former private art collection of Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold. It has since become the most visited museum in the Museums Quarter. Why? Well, because it houses the largest collection of paintings and drawings by that unique artist and general all-round bad boy, Egon Schiele. However in addition to the works by Schiele, which are all exceptionally fine and fill out a view of the artist along with examples of his work at the Belvedere, also in Vienna, there is a great collection of work by other late Nineteenth and early Twentienth century artists, including Klimt, Kokoschka, Kolo Moser and Richard Gerstl.

The museum has a good cafeteria, and an excellent shop which offers scholarly material, exhibition catalogues and postcards.

The Leopold Museum, MuseumsQuartier Wien. U-bahn U2 to MuseumsQuartier and U3 to Volkstheater.
www.leopoldmuseum.org

Google map: tinyurl.com/ygeolmm

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