Albertina

The Albertina houses one of the world's largest and most precious graphic collections. Presently it contains almost 70.000 drawings and more than one million graphic prints from all of the significant art eras from the late Gothic period to the contemporary.
The range of outstanding works spans from Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael through Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens to Lorrain, Delacroix, Manet and Cézanne. The collections of the 20th Century including the works of Schiele, Klimt and Kokoschka as well as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Baselitz distinguish the Albertina.

The foundation of the photographic collection begun in1999 is based on the collection of the Höhere Grafische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics), which had been primarily promoted by Josef Maria Eder. Apart from studio photography, early colour photography and pictorial works it primarily contains examples of scientific photography.

The architecture collection contains almost 25.000 drafts, sketches and models; among them the estates of architects such as Francesco Borromini, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Adolf Loos and Lois Welzenbacher which contain a vast amount of their working documents. The core pieces of the collection are the architectural models by Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto.

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Contact Information

Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1
1010 Wien

Tel. +431534830

http://www.albertina.at