Tour conducted while museum closed to public

This museum housed in a landmark mansion on upper 5th Ave. Private viewings can be arranged Thursday through Monday at 10 a.m. or at 6 p.m.

This is the spot in NYC where all early 20th century Klimt, Egon Schiele, and other Austrian and German art is housed. The museum is devoted to early twentieth-century German And Austrian art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors.

The second-floor galleries are dedicated to art from Vienna circa 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed then between the fine arts (of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gertsl and Alfred Kubin) and the decorative arts (created at the Wiener Werk-stätte by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Dagobert Peche, and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos, Joseph Urban and Otto Wagner). 

The third-floor galleries feature German art representing various movements of the early twentieth century: the Blaue Reiter and its circle; the Brüke; the Bauhaus; the Neue Sachlichkeit; as well as applied arts from the Werkbund and the Bauhaus. The museum's name (which means "new gallery") has its historical roots in various European institutions, artists' associations and commercial galleries, foremost the Neue Galerie in Vienna, founded in 1923 by Otto Kallir. All sought to capture the innovative, modern spirit they discovered and pursued at the turn of the twentieth century.  

PS FAB Café – One of NYC”s secrets. Café Sabarsky where you can sit an absorb a famous Klimt painitng for the price of a coffee  from NYMAG: It’s easy to forget, in this era of plastic cups and lattes to go, that coffee is a luxurious, old-world drink. A single cup at this high-minded Viennese café on upper Fifth Avenue costs $5 and comes to the table on a silver tray. There are excellent Viennese specialties like sausages, goulash, and a whole selection of strudels and chocolate tortes, but the coffee’s stimulating effects will stay with you throughout the day.The artistic sensibility permeates the café, with its reproductions of Josef Hoffmann sconces, Adolf Loos bentwood chairs, and Otto Wagner fabrics.

www.NeueGalerie.org

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