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ONLINECOLLECTION

Surprise!

Rare and Hidden Treasures

The Leopold Collection distinguishes itself from other compilations on Austrian Modernism through its great variety of objects beyond paintings, sculptures and drawings. Are you familiar with Koloman Moser’s examples of marbled paper, for instance, which were used as book covers and recognized as autonomous works? Have you tried to decipher Gustav Klimt’s handwriting in one of his letters? Have you ever seen a more delicate item of clothing than the silk taffeta top from the Flöge sisters’ fashion salon? Did you know that Egon Schiele’s extensive folk art collection comprised a small wooden horse which he immortalized in one of his paintings? Have you explored the scintillating wealth of ideas that characterized exhibition posters around 1900 or imagined taking a seat on Josef Hoffmann’s Seating Machine? The selection of objects presented here invites you to browse the collection of the Leopold Museum for unusual and surprising items.
Ver Sacrum. Theseus and Minotaur. Poster for the *1st Exhibition of the Vienna Secession* (Version Prior to Censorship)
Lounger, Model No. 670, called “Seating Machine”
Marbled Paper in Blue, Orange and Red
Composition in Black, Ocher and Blue
Composition in Brown and Yellow-Orange (The Little Whale)
Landscape in Black with Cloudy Sky
Bird with Long Neck
Pietà. Poster for the play *Murderer, the Hope of Women* for the *Internationale Kunstschau*
Marbled Paper in Gray, Yellow and Pink
Marbled Paper in Yellow and Blue-Gray
Poster for his lecture at the Academic Association for Literature and Music
Marbled Paper in Gray and Yellow
Letter from Egon Schiele to Leopold Czihazek
High-Backed Black Easy Chair with Blue Leather
Letter from Gustav Klimt to Norbert Wien
Ball Souvenir, Concordia Ball 1909 (cover designed by Josef Hoffmann, marbled paper designed by Koloman Moser)
Toyhorse, Part of Schieles Folk-Art-Collection
Scaled-down poster *Ruby Betteley*
Book Cover: Geschichten aus den Winkelgassen
Poster for the exhibition *1908 Kunstschau*
Poster for the *16th Exhibition at the Vienna Secession*
Poster for the exhibition *1908 Kunstschau*, Vienna
He-Goat, Smoking. Design for a Secession poster
Poster for the *14th Exhibition at the Vienna Secession*
Poster for the *10th Exhibition at the Vienna Secession*
Dining-Room Chair for the Apartment of Wolko Gartenberg
Two-Seat Bench
Poster for the exhibition *Black and White*
Poster for the Lecture *My House on Michaelerplatz*
Bodice from the “Schwestern Flöge” fashion salon
"Knieschwimmer" Armchair
Letter from Ferdinand Hodler to Franz Servaes (2 sheets, written on both sides and folded once)
Letter from Ferdinand Hodler to Franz Servaes (2 sheets, written on both sides and folded once)
2nd playbill of the Cabaret Fledermaus
*Ver Sacrum*, Magazine of the Union of Austrian Artists, Founders' issue, July 1898, 1st Year, No. 7
*Ver Sacrum*, Magazine of the Union of Austrian Artists, April 1899, 2nd Year, No. 4
*Ver Sacrum*, Magazine of the Union of Austrian Artists, 1901, 4th Year, No. 8, 1901