Vienna - Linz around 1900

Starting from the heyday of historicism in Linz, which reached its peak with the construction of the Francisco Carolinum, the exhibition at the Castle Museum illuminates the exciting development of modernity in Linz.

What did the city look like around 1900? What traces did the breakthrough into modernity in Vienna, the founding of the Wiener Werkstätte, and the revolutionary works of artists such as Tina Blau, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, or Egon Schiele leave in Linz?

The exhibition not only addresses how the works of these significant artists made their way into the collections of the state of Upper Austria, but it also focuses particularly on Upper Austrian artistic personalities. Central to the exhibition are the master draftsmen Alfred Kubin and Klemens Brosch, as well as the material artist Leopold Forstner, whose key works are located in Linz. These extraordinary artists shaped the cultural reorientation of Upper Austria and provided significant impulses that supported the artistic breakthrough.