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For those who want a bit of Secession without going to Vienna: the Neue Galerie[1] in NYC has one of the largest Secession/Wiener Werkstatte collections outside
by woodruffw 2y ago
For those who want a bit of Secession without going to Vienna: the Neue Galerie[1] in NYC has one of the largest Secession/Wiener Werkstatte collections outside of Austria.
(A fact that the website doesn't touch on is that the Vienna Secession was critical in defining what the Nazis eventually labeled "degenerate" art, and that much of the surviving Secession work is of unclear provenance after being expropriated before and during WWII. There are a bunch of small plaques all around the Leopold and Albertina museums that make oblique reference to this.)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Galerie_New_York https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Galerie_New_York
- amarcheschi 2y agoCool, i'm visiting nyc in a month or so, I didn't know this existed. I must go there
- pontsprit 2y agoAlso if I may recommend Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie. Excellent coffee and cakes in a gorgeous setting