The Albertina Graphic Arts Collection is perhaps the largest
and most important graphic collection in the world. It owns
about 60.000 drawings and about a million graphic reproductions.
Albrecht Dürer's famous "Rabbit"
from the year 1502 is only one example of its many masterpieces.
You will find works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti,
Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens or Claude Lorrain, Eugène
Delacroix, Edouard Manet and Paul Cézanne. 20th century
Austrian artists like Egon
Schiele, Gustav Klimt
or Oskar Kokoschka
are accessible to public scrutiny.
It is much less known, that the Albertina
is the fist Austrian art institution to systematically collect
contemporary and historic photography. There is a focus on
architecture, too!
After extensive renovating this excellent
art collection is once more open to the public! Don't miss
it.
In front of the Albertina, Alfred
Hrdlicka's controversial yet gripping war memorial commemorates
WW II atrocities. (See left image of the row above)
Albertina Graphic Arts Collection Albertinaplatz
1, A-1010 Vienna
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