Lentos Art Museum
The Lentos is a museum of avant-garde in Linz. As a successor of the New Gallery of the City of Linz is one of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in Austria. The 130 -meter-long, internationally acclaimed building by the Zurich architects Weber & Hofer has around 8,000 m² of floor space and is located directly on the Danube between the Nibelungen Bridge and Bruckner house. Its appearance is widely influenced by a transparent, illuminated at night glass envelope. There is a café-restaurant on the west side of the ground floor.
The name derives from the Celtic word Lentos lentos ( flexible, curved) from which probably the original name for Linz was ( the Danube flows in a curve through the eastern urban).
History and Architecture
After the Second World War, the New Gallery of the City of Linz was founded. The base were 120 works of art from the collection of the Berlin art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt ( 1888-1965 ), including paintings and drawings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, Lovis Corinth and Max Pechstein. Based on these stocks the city decided Linz to operate the New Gallery in 1953 as a municipal museum. In 1979 the gallery was housed on the second floor of the Lentia 2000. In 1998, the city has decided to build the Lentos, which was opened on 18 May 2003.
The design of the Zurich architects Weber & Hofer stood by a two-stage competitive process established with 219 posts on 16 November 1998. The 33 million euro project cost the Swiss box with perspective, as the then director Peter Baum outlined the concept were applied by the state of Upper Austria, the city as well as from public and private sponsors. The construction period was 29 months. The museum is a cuboid- shaped building, which the competition area completely fills over a length of 130 meters, this architecture is loud Jürg Weber a reduction to the bare essentials. As with any construction of this low height, Weber, no meaningful contribution to the city's skyline is so still possible, another accent was set: a large hole in the cubic volume, the so-called " Danube window ". This frames the view of the Urfahr and the Postlingberg, the building section above the 60 -meter-wide " window " is designed as a cantilever bridge. Through the " captured panoramic image" of the content of the museum would metaphorically turned outward. The cladding of the concrete cuboid form of 1800 laminated safety glasses with repetitive print art museum lentos.
Today presents the Lentos Museum, which wants to present relevant issues and positions of contemporary art production in relation to the art history of the 20th century and convey. To illustrate works and schools of modern art and its consequences are shown with a focus on the personal collection is set in a specific selection into the light. Exhibitions with loans museum of 20th century art complement the program and provide a genealogy of contemporary art.
A program of events, tours, workshops for kids and more adds to the current exhibitions.
The Danube window
View of the street
Seen from the side of the Danube from
Collection
The collection of the Museum of Fine Arts comprises about 1,500 works from the fields of painting, sculpture and object art, more than 10,000 works on paper and about 850 photographs, including important contributions to the development of artistic photography (A. Rodchenko, Man Ray, H. Bayer).
The earliest works of museum holdings date from the first half of the 19th century ( Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Baptist Reiter ). In the field of classical modernism Lentos has important paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele " father and son Bensch ," Oskar Kokoschka, Lovis Corinth and Max Pechstein. To this end, the collection includes the interwar period with works by the German and Austrian Expressionism and New Objectivity. The period after 1945 is illustrated with works and ensembles of international art, including paintings, sculptures and graphics by Karel Appel, Bayer, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Gottfried Helnwein, Hans Staudacher, Maria Lassnig, Markus Liipertz, Ludwig Merwart, Arnulf Rainer, Sean Scully, Valie Export and Others The inventory is continuously supplemented by acquisitions. In both exhibitions, the collections, modern art and the latest trends in art are presented. In a database, these works are also available online.
Negro Othello ( Lovis Corinth, 1884)
Internationality of the sculpture, sculpture and object collection
The following international artists are represented in the sculptures, sculpture and object collection of Lentos: Stephan Balkenhol, Ernst Barlach, Michael Buthe, Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Canan Dagdelen, Amadeo Gabino, Mathias Goeritz, Shirazeh Houshiary, Leiko Ikemura, Donald Judd, Jiri Kolar, Catherin Lee, Thomas Lenk, Baltasar Lobo, Claes Oldenburg, AR Penck, Klaus Rinke, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Tim Scott, Daniel Spoerri, Rini Tandon, Jan Voss, Simon Wachsmuth and Tom Wesselmann.
Directors
Exhibitions
- 2008/2009: Lois and Franziska Weinberger
- 2012 Valie Export