5 Highlights from the Heidi Horten Collection – RisePEI
After years of secrecy, the Austrian collector Heidi Göess-Horten has lastly given her holdings a everlasting residence through a brand new museum in Vienna.
The just lately opened Heidi Horten Assortment is a brief stroll from a lot of Vienna’s most well-known museums, together with the Leopold and the Albertina. Whereas it pales in dimension and scope to these two establishments, it has already drawn massive crowds since its inauguration earlier this month.
Göess-Horten has over time amassed a 700-work assortment wealthy in works by Franz Marc, Georg Baselitz, Marc Chagall, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, amongst others. However the first grasp on the museum, a present known as “Open,” is essentially devoid of those blue-chip names. It’s as an alternative primarily given over to Austrian artists, particularly younger ones with conceptual inclinations. Future exhibits, nevertheless, will trot out these better-known works.
Beneath, a take a look at 5 notable works within the inaugural grasp:
