Neue Galerie New York
Art museum · Upper East Side
1048 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028
Highlights
German & Austrian art, Klimt's "Woman in Gold," Cafe Sabarsky
German & Austrian art, Klimt's "Woman in Gold," Cafe Sabarsky
"I swung around the corner to Neue Galerie on East 86th, where 19th-century German and Austrian art hang in the 1914-constructed mansion of industrialist William Starr Miller, a building designed by Carrère & Hastings that lends the collection a residential intimacy." - Charlie Hobbs
"Showcases Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes, focusing on natural environments and townscapes rather than human subjects."
"A jewel box of a museum, the Neue Galerie occupies a former Gilded Age Beaux-Arts mansion (completed in 1914) on a quiet block of the Upper East Side. The museum is dedicated entirely to 19th-century German and Austrian art and design, with a collection that spans paintings, furniture, sculpture, photography, and manuscripts. The star attraction, arguably, is Gustav Klimt's mesmerizing and iconic painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, completed in 1907. It was sold to the museum's founder, Ronald Lauder, in 2006 for $135 million. Rotating exhibits on the mansion's third level give visitors colorful glimpses into the lesser-known and appreciated annals of European art during that period." - Andrea Whittle, Charlie Hobbs
"Walking into this Upper East Side townhouse is a quick time warp into the golden age of Vienna, before the First World War. The permanent collection, displayed almost as if it were in an elegant home, includes works by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and many design pieces from Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, and Werner Werkstatte. We never tire of visiting the galleries and then heading downstairs for a tea and Linzer torte at the perfectly achieved turn-of-the-century-style Cafe Sabarsky, where you dine surrounded by Adolf Loos furniture. "
"Walking into this Upper East Side townhouse is a quick time warp into the golden age of Vienna, before the First World War. The permanent collection, displayed almost as if it were in an elegant home, includes works by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and many design pieces from Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, and Werner Werkstatte. We never tire of visiting the galleries and then heading downstairs for a tea and Linzer torte at the perfectly achieved turn-of-the-century-style Cafe Sabarsky, where you dine surrounded by Adolf Loos furniture. "
