Die Sammlung Othmar Huber
Subtitle: The Othmar Huber collection
By: mit einem Vorwort von Klaus Albrecht Schröder, einem Grusswort von Reto Siegl, einem Essay von Matthias Frehner und Bildtexten von Magdalena Plüss
Contributors: Graphische Sammlung Albertina
Publisher: Albertina
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Wien
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9783950467062
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Modern Art; Private collections; Art
Other titles: Othmar Huber collection; Sammlung Othmar Huber.; Sammlung Othmar Huber. English.
Description: The ALBERTINA Museum welcomes the Othmar Huber Collection for a one-year appearance as part of the permanent presentation Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection. A selection of 15 works from the collection of Swiss ophthalmologist Othmar Huber (1892-1979) is being presented, giving rise to a dialogue between these two outstanding accumulations of classical modernist art. The focus of this encounter between key modernist masterpieces is on German Expressionism as well as the early Bauhaus movement with works by Franz Marc, August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Furthermore, two important paintings by Picasso?the Sleeping Drinker (1902) and Head of a Woman (1963), presented together with the ALBERTINA Museum?s own rich Picasso holdings?round out this special guest appearance.The exhibited works are on loan from the Othmar Huber Foundation, kept at Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Kunsthaus Glarus. Exhibition: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (22.02.2020 - 21.02.2021).
Notes: This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition The Othmar Huber Collection, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, February 22, 2020-February 21, 2021, 553rd exhibition of the Albertina Museum.

Paralle texts in German and English.