"Birth of the Modern: Style and Identity in Vienna 1900" Exhibition
Neue Galerie
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The aim of this exhibition is to show a common thread running through the fine and decorative arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna: the redefining of individual identity in the modern age. It will be organized by distinguished curators Jill Lloyd and Christian Witt-Dörring.
In fine art, decorative arts, and music, this entails both a dialogue between surface ornamentation and inner structure, and a search for a specifically modern, Viennese sense of identity. The exhibition will also explore the overlap with new attitudes towards gender and sexuality that surface in Viennese literature and psychology at the time.
[Image: Oskar Kokoschka “Victor Ritter von Bauer” (1914) Oil on canvas 69 x 56 cm.]
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Schedule
from February 24, 2011 to June 27, 2011