from the Leopold to the Modern.

Vienna's Museumsquartier is an excellent place to see art(ifacts) from the uniform that Franz Ferdinand was wearing when shot to Egon Schiele's portraits and images of mutilation from Austrian born conceptual artists.

One of the museums on the Museumsquartier campus is the Leopold, a contemporary gallery that focuses on the paintings of famous Austrians, like Schiele and the ever loved by college dorm rooms Gustav Klimt. The Leopold is also currently showing an excellent photo-expose taken by an Austrian photojournalist who covered the Hungarian revolution.

The austerely cubical Leopold is a nice building, tall ceilings, open spaces, and an occasional glass floor. In the picture below, taken by my mother, you can see people looking out a window at the Leopold. Framed by the spectators you can see a gray structure, the Modern, with a house falling off the top.


I love this picture taken by my mother and I like Modern's building. I also enjoyed the house frozen in tumble, an Erwin Wurm creation. I was less impressed by Mr. Wurm's collection found within the Modern. I personally feel that he was unsuccessful in realizing his concept in his art. A fatal flaw to me -- but most others in the gallery, including my family, thoroughly enjoyed the expose.