The catalogue for the exhibition is available at the Leopold Museum Shop.
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With its newly conceived permanent presentation, the Leopold Museum creates an opulent tableau that offers a uniquely dense and complex insight into the fascination of Vienna around 1900 and the fluidity of that pulsating era.
Around the turn of the century, the Danube metropolis was at once the capital of the high nobility and of liberal intellectuals, of the magnificent Ringstraße and endless poor quarters, of antisemitism and Zionism, of rigid conservatism and the dawning modern age. Splendour and misery, dream and reality, self-dissolution and new beginnings characterise its aesthetic pluralism and mark Vienna of that time as a testing ground and laboratory of ideas – and thus as a central engine of a turbulent movement of renewal. In this heterogeneous milieu – Arnold Schönberg spoke of the "emancipation of dissonance" – that unique concentration of cultural achievements took place, which allows us today to speak of Vienna around 1900 as a wellspring of modernism.