Neue Galerie Museum Honors the Life and Work of Its Co-Founder, Serge Sabarsky |
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| Written by Renee Dubrowski |
| Friday, 16 October 2009 02:37 |
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“The Neue Galerie exists today because of the vision and drive of two men: Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky,” said Renée Price, Director of the Neue Galerie. “With this exhibition of selections from the Sabarsky collection, we pay homage to Serge and to his legacy.”  “Nothing in the world had a
greater influence on me than my Sunday afternoons with Serge,” said Ronald
Lauder, President and Co-founder of the Neue Galerie. “The most important
lessons I learned about art came from these discussions with him; I learned to
look carefully, to immerse myself, and to follow my passion. These lessons have
guided me through the years.” Serge Sabarsky (1912-1996) had a colorful life. Born in Vienna, he worked as a clown and set designer for Simplicissimus, the leading cabaret of the era. He fled his native city in 1938 and settled in New York, where he worked successfully as a contractor before establishing a gallery for Austrian and German Expressionist art. In his later years, he left the commercial art world in order to organize touring museum exhibitions of his collection. With his friend Ronald S. Lauder, he established the Neue Galerie. Although Sabarsky died in 1996, before the museum came to fruition, his passion, expertise, and generosity have informed every aspect of the institution. Since opening in 2001, the Neue Galerie has enjoyed tremendous success, drawing worldwide interest and realizing Sabarsky’s dream: a permanent home in the United States for German and Austrian art and design of the early twentieth century. Neue Galerie New York is a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors. The second-floor galleries are dedicated to art from Vienna circa 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed then between the fine arts (of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Alfred Kubin) and the decorative arts (created at the Wiener Werkstätte by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche, and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos, Joseph Urban, and Otto Wagner). Our museum’s name (which means “new gallery”) has its historical roots in various European institutions, artists’ associations, and commercial galleries, foremost the Neue Galerie in Vienna, founded in 1923 by Otto Kallir. All sought to capture the innovative, modern spirit they discovered and pursued at the turn of the twentieth century. Our institution thus reflects a dual commitment: an embrace of the city in which we are located and a focus on the culture upon which our exhibitions and collections are based. Two of the principal goals of the Neue Galerie New York are to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic culture of this period, and to make the best of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry. Visit : http://www.neuegalerie.org/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
![Erich Heckel (1883-1970), "Girl with Doll" (Fränzi), (Mädchen mit Puppe [Fränzi]), 1910. Oil on canvas, 65 x 70 cm. (25 5/8 x 27 ½ in.) Serge Sabarsky Collection, New York.](/files2009b/Erich_Heckel_Girl_with_Doll.jpg "Erich Heckel (1883-1970), \"Girl with Doll\" (Fränzi), (Mädchen mit Puppe [Fränzi]), 1910. Oil on canvas, 65 x 70 cm. (25 5/8 x 27 ½ in.) Serge Sabarsky Collection, New York.")
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