Rudolf Leopold: Art Collector

ISBN-13: 9783777428673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 312 str.

Diethard Leopold

Opis

In the 1950s, as the world continued to recover from war and artists were grappling with new conditions in striking new ways, Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010) achieved something impressive: he built up a large, aesthetically sophisticated and historically relevant art collection of international renown. This book draws on the memories of Leopold's son, Diethard, to tell Leopold's story, presenting him as a fascinating collector. It shows how Leopold, beginning his collection around a core of works by Egon Schiele, branched out to collect major works by Klimt, Kokoschka, Gerstl, Egger-Lienz, and Kubin, as well as by German expressionists--thus bringing together a representative grouping of the key artists of the period.

O autorze

Leopold, DiethardDiethard Leopold, geboren 1956, Sohn des Kunstsammlers Rudolf Leopold, studierte Germanistik, Theologie und Psychologie an der Universität Wien. Leopold arbeitete als Psychotherapeut (Gestalttherapie) in Wien und ist dort seit 2008 als Kurator am Leopold Museum tätig. Er kuratierte zahlreiche Ausstellungen und publizierte Bücher sowie Katalogbeiträge insbesondere zum Thema 'Kunst und Kultur in Wien um 1900'.