The Leopold Museum’s online collection currently features more than 1,400 image files of works from the Leopold Museum’s own collection and of permanent loans from private collections. The database is regularly supplemented with new video and audio contributions, geared towards adults, teenagers and children, thus offering insightful contextualizations of the collection.
The Leopold Museum’s Director Hans-Peter Wipplinger: “The online collection is an essential building block of the Leopold Museum’s long-term strategy. Along with collecting, researching and conserving, it is one of the core tasks of any museum to present and mediate art on site and, by extension, also within the digital sphere. We are committed to engaging new target audiences with art, to preserving artworks for posterity and to offering interested people all over the world free, unrestricted access to our collection.”
The range of the digital presentation spans the period from Biedermeier to New Objectivity. Alongside works by the collection’s exceptional protagonists, such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl, the database further features eminent exhibits by artists including Rudolf von Alt, Hans Makart, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Tina Blau, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Hoffmann, Alfred Kubin, Anton Kolig, Albin Egger-Lienz, Koloman Moser, Max Oppenheimer, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, as well as examples of international art by Gustave Courbet, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, George Minne, Auguste Rodin, Ferdinand Hodler, Franz von Stuck and many others. The Leopold Museum’s online collection opens up new perspectives both to experts and an interested public.
