Neue Galerie New York

The Neue Galerie New York is a museum in New York City for German and Austrian art of the early 20th century.

It lies on the Museum Mile, in the south of the district Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side in New York City borough of Manhattan at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street.

History

The museum was run by the art dealer and museum director Serge Sabarsky and his close friend, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronald Lauder as " Serge Sabarsky Gallery" at 987 Madison Avenue since 1968.

1994 both bought from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research today's home at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue. Previous owner was Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III. Built in neo-classical style by the architects of the New York Public Library John Mervin Carrère and Thomas Hastings elegant New York townhouse was first obtained in 1914 by industrialist William Starr Miller.

After Sabarskys death in 1996 Lauder began to integrate his valuable personal art collection to the museum and to make it as a high-profile museum.

In 2001, the subtly renovated by the German interior designer Anna Belle Sellendorf New Gallery was reopened. The exhibition rooms can accommodate a maximum of 350 visitors. The museum also find a bookshop, a design shop in the style of a library and two Viennese cafes.

Collection

The collection of the Neue Galerie is divided into two areas. The first floor is dedicated to the early 20th century Austrian art ( works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka ), the second floor of the German, primarily expressionist art of that era ( Works by Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky).

In June 2006, Lauder purchased for the Neue Galerie Klimt's oil painting Portrait of Adele Bloch -Bauer I by $ 135 million to the hitherto highest price that has been paid for a painting. In November of the same year he bought the painting previously owned by the Berliner Brücke - Museum Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner for 38.1 million U.S. dollars.

Exhibitions

• 2010: Otto Dix
• 2010/11: Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
• 2012: The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century. Germany, Austria, and France. With catalog.
• 2014: Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937