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The
Neue Galerie New York (
German: "New Gallery") is a museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design located at
86th Street and
Fifth Avenue in
New York City. It is one of the most recent additions to New York City's famed
Museum Mile, which runs from 83rd to 105th streets on Fifth Avenue in the
Upper East Side of
Manhattan.
The museum was first conceived by two close friends, museum administrator and art dealer
Serge Sabarsky and entrepreneur and philanthropist
Ronald S. Lauder. They met in 1967, just before Sabarsky opened his first gallery. The
Serge Sabarsky Gallery opened at 987 Madison Avenue in 1968, and almost immediately earned a reputation as New York’s leading gallery for Austrian and German
Expressionist art. Lauder was a frequent visitor and client. Both Sabarsky and Lauder enjoyed a passionate commitment to the art of this period, and they dreamed of someday opening a museum space to showcase the very best of this work. When Sabarsky died in 1996, Lauder chose to carry on the task of creating Neue Galerie New York, as a tribute to his friend.
The collection of the Neue Galerie is divided into two sections. The second floor of the museum houses works of fine art and decorative art from early twentieth-century Austria, including paintings by
Gustav Klimt,
Oskar Kokoschka, and
Egon Schiele. The third floor exhibits various German works from the same era, including art movements such as
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider),
Die Brücke (The Bridge), and the
Bauhaus. Featured artists on this floor include
Vasily Kandinsky,
Paul Klee,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Lyonel Feininger,
Otto Dix, and
George Grosz.
The museum also contains a bookstore, design shop, and two
Viennese cafés, "Café Sabarsky" and "Café Fledermaus", both of which are operated by restaurateur
Kurt Gutenbrunner.
The museum is housed in an elegant
Louis XIII/
Beaux-Arts structure located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. Commissioned by industrialist
William Starr Miller in
1914 from the New York-based architecture firm
Carrère and Hastings, it was subsequently occupied by Grace Vanderbilt, the wife of
Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and then by the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research before being purchased by Lauder and Sabarsky in 1994. The building was fully renovated by German architect Annabelle Selldorf and restored to its original state before the Neue Galerie opened.
In 2006, Lauder purchased Klimt's painting
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I on behalf of the Neue Galerie. Citing a confidentiality agreement, Lauder would only confirm that the purchase price was more than the last record price of $104.2 million US for
Picasso's 1905
Boy With a Pipe. The press reported the price for the Klimt at
US$135 million, which would make it at that time the
most expensive painting ever sold. It has been on display at the museum since July 2006.
Past exhibition
Van Gogh and Expressionism opened
March 22, 2007, and ran until
July 2, 2007. It explored the crucial influence of
Vincent van Gogh on German and Austrian Expressionism. More than 80 paintings and drawings were on view, including a number of major canvases by Van Gogh, as well as important paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka,
Alexei von Jawlensky,
Franz Marc, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
Emil Nolde, and others. This exhibition, organized by curator Jill Lloyd, the well-known scholar of Expressionism, filled all the gallery spaces in the museum.
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