Arts | MAM to celebrate 100 years of Austrian art, 1860–1960

‘Head of a Man from the Front’ (1879) by Gustav Klimt

The Macau Museum of Art (MAM) is launching an exhibition at the end of this month, showcasing a century of Austrian art.
The exhibition, entitled “One Century of Austrian Art 1860–1960,” will feature nearly a hundred masterpieces by iconic Austrian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The period covered in the exhibition highlights a renaissance in influential Austrian art. Many of the artists, painters, sculptors and playwrights from this period pioneered modern movements and styles that have in turn influenced other artists globally and have inspired architectural marvels – particularly within Austria, but also abroad.
Among those whose works will be shown is Austrian symbolist painter, Gustav Klimt – a prominent member of the Vienna Secession movement who opposed the late-19th-century rigid interpretation of what constituted art.
The works of Egon Schiele, a renowned painter and protégé of Klimt, will also be showcased in the exhibition, as well as those of his contemporary, Oskar Kokoschka, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
Also set to be exhibited is Max Oppenheimer’s “String Quartet,” Joseph Dobrowsky’s celebrated “Corn Fields,” and Aloys Wach’s expressionist account of the Sermon on the Mount, “Jesus on the Mount of Olives.”
The inauguration ceremony for the exhibition will take place on January 29 at 6.30 p.m. in MAM’s Gallery of Special Exhibitions.
It will be open to the public from January 30 until April 3, between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., except on Monday when it is closed. Admission is normally MOP5, but is free on Sundays and Macau public holidays.