From the June 2026 issue of Apollo. The Albertina, the great Viennese treasure house of works on paper and home of Dürer’s celebrated watercolour of a hare, celebrates its 250th anniversary this year.

VIENNA.-Albertina Modern, the second exhibiting venue of the Albertina Museum, opened its doors with its over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists, it is set to be among the world’s major museums of art from ...

Inch per inch, Vienna possesses arguably the world’s densest collection of landmarks, so culturally and aesthetically rich is the city core that you could hardly toss a pebble without it bouncing off ...

Vienna’s Albertina museum has received a gift of 1,323 works valued at about €90m, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Tony Cragg, Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Alex Katz and Neo Rauch, which it plans ...

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienna, Austria (or should we say the Albertinas, ever since the opening of a space devoted to modern art in a nearby building?), has made his ...

With a name that evokes London’s Tate Modern, Vienna’s €50m new venue for post-1945 art will one day rank “among the world’s major museums of modern and contemporary art”. So promises a spokeswoman ...

Drowning Girl, 1963, Oil and acrylic on canvas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philip Johnson Fund (by exchange) and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright © Estate ...

In 2023, the Albertina museum celebrates its reopening 20 years ago, the renovation of the state rooms and the expansion of the museum from 2,000 to over 28,000 square meters today. With between ...

VIENNA.-Albertina Modern, the second exhibiting venue of the Albertina Museum, opened its doors with its over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists, it is set to be among the world’s major museums of art from ...