Essl Collection Transferred to the ALBERTINA

With over 6,000 works, the Essl Collection numbers among the world's largest private collections of its kind. Groups of works by figures including Karel Appel and Arnulf Rainer, Franz West and Georg Baselitz, Maria Lassnig and Alex Katz, Erwin Wurm and Anselm Kiefer, VALIE EXPORT and Cindy Sherman, and photographs by artists ranging from Andreas Gursky to Candida Höfer, characterise this collection's unique richness and special profile.

VIENNA, 16/02/2017 (informazione.it - comunicati stampa - arte e cultura)

With over 6,000 works, the numbers among the world's largest private collections of its kind. Groups of works by figures including Karel Appel and Arnulf Rainer , Franz West and Georg Baselitz, Maria Lassnig and Alex Katz , Erwin Wurm and Anselm Kiefer , VALIE EXPORT and Cindy Sherman , and photographs by artists ranging from Andreas Gursky to Candida Höfer, characterise this collection's unique richness and special profile.

In 2014, the was in danger of being caught up in the financial turbulences surrounding the group of companies owned by the Essl family. But that same year, the collection in no small part thanks to the efforts of Dr. Hans Peter Haselsteiner - was placed under the ownership of a new company, thus ensuring its survival. Now, its permanent loan (until 2044) to the ALBERTINA, places the beneath the umbrella of the Austrian Federal Museums.

Essl Collection commented Minister of Culture Thomas Drozda

said a cheerful Karlheinz Essl

Klaus Albrecht Schröder: Essl Collection  

Georg Baselitz:

Essl Collection , Essl Collection. Essl Collection."

Eva Schlegel :

 

Erwin Wurm :

Essl Collection

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