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The Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna

The attempt to present the Viennese sculptors within are illustrated by Belling, Servranck. Pevsner. and
1 their appropriate place on the international scene was Schlemmer (Sculpture in the round). and the magic­
Andre Derain 1880-1954 successful. although some important names like surrealist movement by Gonzales and Freundlich
Crouching Man 1907
Stone Matisse. Brancusi and Gaba. are still on the list of (Ascent). The last twenty years are recorded by the
33 x 38 cm. works I hope to acquire. Nevertheless. the collection following: Arp, Aeschbacher. Visser. Luginbuhl,
2 with its more than sixty works of art offers today a survey Jacobsen. Richier. Moore, Bill. Cesar. Couzijn,
Maryan which it is worth while reviewing. (When I started it. Armitage. Ernst. Giacometti, Calder. Mir6. Benazzi,
Painting 1956
it contained sculptures by Archipenko. Barlach. Lipsi. Kalinovsky, Etienne-Martin. Wotruba. Hoflehner.
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Medardo Rosso 1858-1928 Lehmbruck. Despiau. Marini and Giacometti). The Bertoni. Urteil. Prantl. Goeschl. and Pillhofer.
Child's Head 1892 turn of the century is represented by Medardo Rosso In the field of painting. it was more difficult to make
Wax & Plaster
25.4 cm. high (Ecce puer. Book-maker). Rodin. Minne. Picasso good the neglect of decades than it was to keep step
(Fernande. 1906/7) and Derain's Squatter. one of with post-war developments. It meant making a
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Renato Guttuso Brancusi's incunabulum of modern stone-sculpture. virtue of necessity. Quite intentionally, therefore.
Algerian Woman 1960 Then follows Cubism: Lipschitz. Archipenko's Boxing pictures were acquired of artists who are seldom to be
match. Duchamp-Villon·s Little Horse and Prof Gosset. seen elsewhere: a Rollenbild by Richter (1923). a
The constructivist tendencies of the inter-war period monochrome plaster relief by Delaunay (1936). a
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picture by Mansuroff painted on both sides of the
canvas (1919). a picture by Larinoff (around 1912) as
well as pictures by Wolfgang Paalen and Oscar
Dominguez. But the Museum was not intended to
become an 'Anthology of out-of-the-way Art'. It was
still possible to acquire a few outstanding works of art
which belong in every manual of modern art. Applying
the most rigid standards I include in this category
House by the Station (1 908) by Schmidt-Rottluff. a
Nocturne (1910) by Kupka. Kokoschka's Karl Kraus
(1925) and a 9 square metres large stained glass
window by Matisse. the first example of this technique
of the artist to be represented in a European Museum.
The twenty years of the post-war period are
represented on the one hand by internationally
recognised artists (Dubuffet. Brauner. Lam, Matta,
Magritte. Mathieu. Poliakoff. Appel. Schuhmacher. Nay,
Serpan. Delvaux. Vedova. Guttuso. Tobey), and on
the other hand by artists who are only just beginning
to make a name for themselves. Here the younger
generation predominates (Antes. Maryan. Bitran. Miki,
Hollegha, Rainer. Hilton, Scott. two pictures by Davie,
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