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Neue Galerie

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Neue Galerie [Ger.,=New Gallery], museum in New York City, specializing in early 20th-century fine and decorative art from Germany and Austria; est. 2001. One of the relatively small museum's two galleries is devoted to Austrian work, e.g., art by Gustav Klimt Klimt, Gustav (gs`täf klĭmt), 1862–1918, Austrian painter.
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, Egon Schiele Schiele, Egon (ā`gôn shē`lə)
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, and Oskar Kokoschka Kokoschka, Oskar (ôs`kär kōkôsh`kä), 1886–1980, Austrian expressionist painter and writer.
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 and design by Josef Hoffmann Hoffmann, Josef, 1870–1956, Austrian architect. A student of Otto Wagner, he was a leader of Austrian decoration in the first three decades of the 20th cent.
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 and Otto Wagner Wagner, Otto (ôt`ō väg`nər), 1841–1918, Austrian architect.
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. The other gallery features the art of various German movements, e.g., Der Blaue Reiter Blaue Reiter, der (dĕr blou`ə rī`tər) [Ger.,=the blue rider], German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1911 to 1914.
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, Die Brücke Brücke, Die [Ger.,=the bridge], German expressionist art movement, lasting from 1905 to 1913. Influenced by the art of Jugendstil (the German equivalent of art nouveau), Van Gogh, and the primitive sculpture of Africa and the South Seas, the
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, and the Bauhaus Bauhaus (bou`hous), school of art and architecture in Germany.
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, and German decorative art. The Neue Galerie was founded by art dealer Serge Sabarsky and cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder, whose personal collections form the basis of its permanent collection.


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Selldorf Architects, therefore, was the appropriate choice to be the building's designer, as the firm's project list includes numerous galleries--among them, Neue Galerie New York and David Zwirner Gallery; exhibition and studio spaces; museums; art foundations; and private residences of collectors.
10* SAO PAULO Lygia Clark Musee des Beaux- Arts de Nantes UNITED KINGDOM Christian Jankowski Des Moines Art Center, IA Fred Sandback Neue Galerie Graz, Kunstmuseum June 24-Sept.
The intent of this radically rehoused institution (it previously occupied a townhouse on the same site) is distinct from the privately funded Neue Galerie newly opened on East 86th Street and resplendent with Klimts and Schieles and the work of the Wiener Werkstatte.
 
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