The ALBERTINA is home to one of Europe’s largest and most outstanding collections of classical modernist paintings: The Batliner Collection. It was turned over to the ALBERTINA by Rita and Herbert Batliner in 2007, opening a new chapter in the museum’s history. From French Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism (including works by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Braque, and Matisse) to masterpieces of the expressionist artists’ groups Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter (including paintings by Kirchner, Kandinsky, and Nolde) and on to the Russian avant-garde and numerous works by Pablo Picasso, this permanent exhibition presents all of modernism’s revolutionary ideas.
The 2007 decision by Herbert and Rita Batliner to turn their collection over to the public, along with their choice of the ALBERTINA Museum as a partner, enriched the museum landscape in a lasting way for contemporary art, too. Beginning at the turn of the millennium onward the Batliners began collecting the diverse painted output of the present era: Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Alex Katz, Imi Knoebel, and Arnulf Rainer.
Claude Monet
The Water Lily Pond, 1917-1919
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Marc Chagall
The Kite, 1926
© Bildrecht, Vienna 2021 | The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Pablo Picasso
Woman in a green hat, 1947
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Succession Picasso / Bildrecht, Vienna 2021
Oskar Kokoschka
Im Garten II, 1934
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht, Vienna 2021
Oskar Kokoschka
London, kleine Themse-Landschaft, 1926
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Bildrecht, Vienna, 2021
Oskar Kokoschka
Ansicht von Vernet-les-Bains, 1925
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Emil Nolde
Moonlit Night, 1914
Oil on Canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
© Nolde Foundation Seebüll
Maurice de Vlaminck
Still Life with Fruit Bowl, 1905-1906
Oil on canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Alexej von Jawlensky
Young Girl in a Flowered Hat, 1910
Oil on cardboard
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Amedeo Modigliani
Weiblicher Halbakt, 1918
Oil on Canvas
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Edgar Degas
Two Dancers, 1905
Pastell auf Papier
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Francis Bacon
Seated Figure, 1960
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Francis Bacon: Estate of Francis Bacon/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2021
Joan Miró
Birds and Insects, 1938
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2021
Max Beckmann
Woman with Cat, 1942
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2021
Edvard Munch
Winter Landscape,
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection © Edvard Munch/The Munch Museum/The Munch Ellingsen Group
Paul Signac
Venice, the Pink Cloud, 1909
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Marc Chagall
Schläferin mit Blumen, 1972
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Kazimir Malewitsch
Mann in suprematistischer Landschaft, ca 1930 - 31
Öl auf Leinwand
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
