Vienna's Leopold Museum Receives Extensive Franz-Hagenauer Donation

This donation gives the Viennese Leopold Museum the world's "most extensive and significant collection" of the Austrian sculptor Franz Hagenauer, who died in 1986, according to a statement. Museum founder Rudolf Leopold already collected works by Hagenauer. With this donation, an additional 139 artworks have now been added to the collection.

Viennese Leopold Museum Receives 139 Works by Franz Hagenauer

Hagenauer's metal heads, created from the late 1930s onwards, are considered by Leopold Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger to be "among the most radical modernist advances in Austrian art of the interwar period". The collection of sculptures and design objects of the artist, compiled by collector Erich Breinsberg over four decades, is "one of the most significant donations in the recent history of the Leopold Museum". Breinsberg himself described Hagenauer as a "co-creator of a fascinating epoch of modernity. His singular works should continue to bring joy to many people in the future."

In 2022, the Leopold Museum dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to Hagenauer, with the majority of the loans coming from the possession of Monika and Erich Breinsberg. As part of the donation, the accompanying catalogue was also revised and is available in an expanded edition under the title "Franz Hagenauer. A Singular Position of Modernity. The Breinsberg Collection". Selected works by Hagenauer are also on display in the permanent presentation "From Expressionism to New Objectivity".

(APA/Red)

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