Sometimes a date or rendezvous can ignite an exceptional story, as was the case with the initial meeting of Agnes and Karlheinz
Essl in 1959 in New York. They immediately became a couple and enjoyed their first encounters with contemporary art in the
fascinating metropolis on their dates which took them to the museums and galleries of New York. This was the origin of their
love for art which soon became a passion: The beginning of the Essl CollectionSometimes a date or rendezvous can ignite an exceptional story, as was the case with the initial meeting of Agnes and Karlheinz
Essl in 1959 in New York. They immediately became a couple and enjoyed their first encounters with contemporary art in the
fascinating metropolis on their dates which took them to the museums and galleries of New York. This was the origin of their
love for art which soon became a passion: The beginning of the Essl CollectionSometimes a date or rendezvous can ignite an exceptional story, as was the case with the initial meeting of Agnes and Karlheinz
Essl in 1959 in New York. They immediately became a couple and enjoyed their first encounters with contemporary art in the
fascinating metropolis on their dates which took them to the museums and galleries of New York. This was the origin of their
love for art which soon became a passion: The beginning of the Essl CollectionSometimes a date or rendezvous can ignite an exceptional story, as was the case with the initial meeting of Agnes and Karlheinz
Essl in 1959 in New York. They immediately became a couple and enjoyed their first encounters with contemporary art in the
fascinating metropolis on their dates which took them to the museums and galleries of New York. This was the origin of their
love for art which soon became a passion: The beginning of the Essl Collection.Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the Essl Collection, the major show of collection holdings in 2016, features a rendezvous between central
works and artists from the Essl Collection. Austrian and international artists meet, sometimes in surprising constellations.Actual romantic rendezvous like the ones Maria Lassnig and Arnulf Rainer">Arnulf Rainer had in the 1950s in Paris come upon imaginary What-if
encounters: Max Weiler meets Cecily Brown, Martha Jungwirth has a date with Asger Jorn, and Kurt Kocherscheidt with Antoni
Tàpies.Far Eastern philosophies with their focus on reduction influenced not only Hans Bischoffshausen, Georges Matthieu and Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, but also the aforementioned Rainer and Lassnig. Encounters with the archaic and the primal bring together such
divergent artists as Kurt Kocherscheidt, Antoni Tàpies, Hermann Nitsch and Eduardo Chillida">Eduardo Chillida.Nature’s creation is the focal point for Max Weiler and Per Kirkeby, the painterly process of transformation connects Weiler
with the much younger artist Cecily Brown. Other meetings celebrate the spontaneous, unbound act of painting valued by the
artists of COBRA.The last room of the exhibition hosts a rendezvous with an unknown outcome with works chosen by friends of the Essl Museum.
The first selection will be made by the collectors Agnes and Karlheinz Essl, a profession of love to art..Curator: Andreas HofferExhibition: 19.02.2015 - January 2016Opening: 18.02.2015, 19.30Sometimes a date or rendezvous can ignite an exceptional story, as was the case with the initial meeting of Agnes and Karlheinz
Essl in 1959 in New York. They immediately became a couple and enjoyed their first encounters with contemporary art in the
fascinating metropolis on their dates which took them to the museums and galleries of New York. This was the origin of their
love for art which soon became a passion: The beginning of the Essl Collection.Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the Essl Collection, the major show of collection holdings in 2016, features a rendezvous between central
works and artists from the Essl Collection. Austrian and international artists meet, sometimes in surprising constellations.Actual romantic rendezvous like the ones Maria Lassnig and Arnulf Rainer">Arnulf Rainer had in the 1950s in Paris come upon imaginary What-if
encounters: Max Weiler meets Cecily Brown, Martha Jungwirth has a date with Asger Jorn, and Kurt Kocherscheidt with Antoni
Tàpies.Far Eastern philosophies with their focus on reduction influenced not only Hans Bischoffshausen, Georges Matthieu and Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, but also the aforementioned Rainer and Lassnig. Encounters with the archaic and the primal bring together such
divergent artists as Kurt Kocherscheidt, Antoni Tàpies, Hermann Nitsch and Eduardo Chillida">Eduardo Chillida.Nature’s creation is the focal point for Max Weiler and Per Kirkeby, the painterly process of transformation connects Weiler
with the much younger artist Cecily Brown. Other meetings celebrate the spontaneous, unbound act of painting valued by the
artists of COBRA.The last room of the exhibition hosts a rendezvous with an unknown outcome with works chosen by friends of the Essl Museum.
The first selection will be made by the collectors Agnes and Karlheinz Essl, a profession of love to art..Curator: Andreas HofferExhibition: 19.02.2015 - January 2016Opening: 18.02.2015, 19.30.Curator: Andreas HofferExhibition: 19.02.2015 - January 2016Opening: 18.02.2015, 19.30.Curator: Andreas HofferCurator: Andreas HofferExhibition: 19.02.2015 - January 2016Exhibition: 19.02.2015 - January 2016Opening: 18.02.2015, 19.30Opening: 18.02.2015, 19.30ESSL MUSEUMKunst der GegenwartAn der Donau-Au 13400 Klosterneuburg bei WienT: +43-(0)2243-370 50 150E:DI-SO: 10.00 - 18.00MI: 10.00 - 21.00ab 18.00 Uhr freier Eintritt!Montag geschlossen,außer an Feiertagen.
