Future exhibitions in Vienna

This exhibition places the work of little-known artist Erwin Osen in the context of Viennese physician Stefan Jellinek's electropathological research and pairs it with Egon Schiele's interest in depicting patients. Osen's hitherto rather unknown drawings as a companion and model of Egon Schiele thus enrich the understanding of Viennese Modernism and its art practice, which was closely linked to the culture of clinical medicine.

Starting in April, the MAK is dedicating a comprehensive show to the women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, who have received little attention to date. Gudrun Baudisch, Vally Wieselthier, Mathilde Flögl, Paula Lustig and Mizzi Vogl are just a few of the nearly 180 women who made a significant contribution to the development of Viennese arts and crafts. On display is their wealth of ideas in terms of commercial graphics, textile design, fashion design, toys, wall ornaments and ceramics.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is dedicating its major fall exhibition in 2021 to the great Titian, one of the most important Venetian painters. For this purpose, more than 50 masterpieces of Venetian painting will be lent from the most important museums in the world. The focus will be on more than 20 paintings by Titian, framed by great masters such as Veronese, Tintoretto, Palma Vecchio, Paris Bordone and Giorgione, for whom he was a role model.

This time’s motto of the Ganymed exhibition: Power. Thanks to texts and compositions staged by Jacqueline Kornmüller, 30 artists bring the paintings of the KHM Gemäldegalerie to new life. The exhibition contains art that tells of the preservation and loss of power as well as of the aberrations of power that still vividly shape everyday social and political life today.

The Belvedere is devoting an interesting exhibition to this hitherto little-noticed period of Austrian art in the transitional period from the late Gothic to the Renaissance. Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer and Jacopo de' Barbari are just a few of the great names who were among Albrecht Dürer's contemporaries and who were active in Austria around 1500 and in the following decades.

The MAK is also celebrating another jubilarian on the occasion of his 150th birthday at the end of the year. On display is the complete oeuvre of architect, designer, teacher and exhibition designer Josef Hoffmann, who is considered one of the central figures of Viennese modernism. The show presents a cross-section of Hoffmann's revolutionary designs as well as his most important buildings. Among them the Palais Stoclet in Brussels or the Purkersdorf Sanatorium.