Lentos Art Museum

The Lentos Art Museum is a museum of present day artwork in Linz, Austria. It opened in May 2003 as the successor of the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. The museum constructing changed into designed with the aid of the Zurich architects Weber & Hofer. It is a hundred thirty meters lengthy, gives approximately 8000 m2 for use, and has a transparent glass facade, illuminated at night time. It is positioned directly at the Danube among the Nibelungen Bridge and Brucknerhaus. 120 essential art works from the gathering of the Berlin artwork dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt 1888 to 1965, along with paintings and picture works by means of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Nolde, Corinth and Pechstein, shaped the muse of the collection of the New Gallery of the City of Linz after World War II.

Building on these holdings, the metropolis of Linz decided in 1953 to keep the New Gallery as a city museum with an energetic exhibition application and acquisition policies, and in 1998 to construct the Lentos Museum, which opened in May 2003. Lentos seeks to offer vast topics and troubles of contemporary artwork in relation to twentieth-century art records.