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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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