Neue Galerie New York

Now through October 14, 2024, the Neue Galerie is offering reduced admission!

NOW ON VIEW
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”
“Spotlight: German Masterworks from the Kellen Foundation”

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org ✨

Please note that only the second floor galleries are open at this time. Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” (1907) will always be on view. The third floor galleries are closed as we prepare for the opening of “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes,” which opens on October 17, 2024.

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FINAL DAY! Thank you to everyone who visited the Neue Galerie to take in “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” the first ever museum retrospective in the United States devoted to the artist. The galleries are open today from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“Glorious...dazzling...Modersohn-Becker achieved something extraordinary”
– The New York Times

“Revelatory retrospective of an artistic life cut short… foregrounds the brilliance of the German Expressionist”
– Financial Times

“A poignant homage to the German modernist painter’s boundless creativity”
– The Wall Street Journal

FINAL DAY
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org✨

This exhibition will next travel to The Art Institute of Chicago, where it will open on October 12, 2024.

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Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), “Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand” (detail), 1907, oil on canvas. Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Debra and Leon Black, and The Neue Galerie New York, Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

See you tonight! Neue Galerie New York is open late today, Friday, September 6 for First Fridays. Guests will be admitted free at 5 p.m. and the galleries will remain open until 8 p.m. Due to the popularity of First Fridays, please expect to wait in a line outside of the museum for entry. Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

This is your last chance for free entry to “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” which runs through September 9, 2024.

First Fridays are made possible with the generous support of Bank of America.

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org/firstfridays✨

FINAL DAYS
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Exterior view of Neue Galerie New York with banner promoting “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”

Final days! “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me” is on view through September 9.

“An exultant sense of discovery is the propelling through line of “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” a glorious exhibition at the Neue Galerie that is, surprisingly, the German artist’s first in an American museum.”
– The New York Times

LAST CHANCE
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are open with regular hours on Labor Day.

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Installation view of “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me” at Neue Galerie New York. Photography by Annie Schlechter.

We’re serving Sachertorte with a side of “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me.”

The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are open with regular hours throughout the Labor Day holiday weekend.

FINAL DAYS
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

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Join us this Labor Day weekend! The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are open with regular hours on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

FINAL DAYS
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org✨

“Cézanne’s apples, van Gogh’s flowers and Degas’s red interiors all find their way into Modersohn-Becker’s work, as do the grave, staring eyes of Roman Egyptian funerary portraits.”
– The New York Times

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Infant with Mother’s Hand,” ca. 1903, oil tempera on canvas. Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen. Photo: ARTOTHEK - Lars Lohrich

“In her dazzling early charcoal portrait drawings,almost life size, she looked hard at her sitters, rendering roughened knuckles and dirt-encrusted fingernails as lovingly as a court painter did bridles and breeches. She recognized that hands can divulge as much as faces. In “Farmer’s Wife, Seated” (1899), a woman with a thick nose and tendoned neck gazes with a look of composure, a mood that is reinforced by the large, capable, weathered hands resting comfortably in her lap.”
– The New York Times

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Farmer’s Wife, Seated,” 1899, charcoal on paper. Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Grafische Sammlung / Department of Prints and Drawings. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein. Photo: © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen.

Thank you to Eater for recognizing Neue Galerie New York’s Café Sabarsky among the best of museum dining in New York City!

“If German Expressionism is your thing, hit up the Neue Galerie, where the collection of Kilmts and Groszs is unsurpassed. Its renowned eatery is called Café Sabarsky with chef Christopher Engel (formerly at Wallsé and Aureole) at the helm.”
– Robert Sietsema, Eater

Café Sabarsky seats guests on a first-come, first-served basis for breakfast and lunch. Dinner reservations are available via RESY. The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are now open six days a week, including Wednesdays!

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/cafesabarsky

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Eye spy something wonderful in the Neue Galerie’s Book Store and Design Shop.

Visit shop.neuegalerie.org to explore a range of books, gifts, and summer treats!

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Featured here:
“Letter to the Father” by Franz Kafka
“Letters to Felice” by Franz Kafka
Grainne Morton Amulet Earrings
Klimt Egyptian Eye Pendant Brooch
Marie-Hélène de Taillac Klimt Portrait Earrings
Blue Angel Sunshades by Selima Optique
Josef Hoffmann Edition Cufflinks for Gustav Klimt

“Little escaped Modersohn-Becker’s scrutiny. A paramount subject of inquiry was her own self. For some of her 60 self-portraits, which are her best-known works, she bared all: She is said to be the first Western female artist to depict herself in the n**e. In many others, she holds a flower or a fruit, like a saint or a nobleman in a Renaissance painting. Either way, she looks unmistakably modern.”
– The New York Times

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Self-Portrait on Sixth Wedding (Anniversary) Day,” 1906, oil tempera on cardboard mounted on wood. Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen. Photo: © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

Join us on Monday, September 9 at 6:30 p.m. for “‘I Agitate Against You with a Thousand Tongues of Love’: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters,” a lecture presented by Ulrich Baer, University Professor of Comparative Literature, German, and English at New York University.

Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rainer Maria Rilke, two of the most important creative artists of early twentieth-century Europe, enjoyed a close friendship that left in its wake a remarkable series of letters. These deeply personal letters offer a poignant portrait of their unusually intense relationship, and of the two artists’ views on art, life, love, and marriage during a period of artistic upheaval.

Learn more and register at
neuegalerie.org/lectures ✨

This event is sold out, but you may join the waitlist!

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Rainer Maria Rilke at his desk.

“Glorious...dazzling...Modersohn-Becker achieved something extraordinary”
– The New York Times

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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“If German Expressionism is your thing, hit up the Neue Galerie, where the collection of Kilmts and Groszs is unsurpassed. Its renowned eatery is called Café Sabarsky with chef Christopher Engel (formerly at Wallsé and Aureole) at the helm. It channels a fin-de-siecle konditerei, with a luscious collection of cakes, torts, and strudels.”
– Robert Sietsema, Eater

Thank you to for recognizing Neue Galerie New York’s Café Sabarsky among the best of museum dining in New York City. We are in great company with The Bar Room at The Museum of Modern Art, Robert at Museum of Arts and Design, Restaurant at Gilder in the American Museum of Natural History, and Yellow Magnolia Cafe at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Café Sabarsky seats guests on a first-come, first-served basis for breakfast and lunch. Dinner reservations are available via RESY. The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are now open six days a week, including Wednesdays!

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/cafesabarsky ✨

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Pastries at Café Sabarsky. Daniela Galarza/Eater NY

What are you reading this summer? These little gems from Hirmer Verlag are the perfect introduction to some of the art stars in the Neue Galerie’s Book Store. 

Visit shop.neuegalerie.org to explore a range of books and summer treats!

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A hand holding a selection of Hirmer Verlag publications on some of our favorite artists from the collection in front of greenery.

Join us on Thursday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m. for “Fervor of Motherly Love: The Reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s Art in Weimar Germany,” a lecture presented by Michelle Vangen, Adjunct Professor at Kingsborough College. This lecture is part of a series organized in coordination with the Neue Galerie’s special exhibition, “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” exploring various aspects of Modersohn-Becker’s life and work.

When Paula Modersohn-Becker died in 1907, she was essentially unknown as a painter. Within just two decades of her death, however, she had become the first woman artist in Germany to have a museum devoted to her art. In her talk, Michelle Vangen will explore how Modersohn-Becker’s fascination with motherhood, a theme she addressed repeatedly in her art, led to her rise to national renown in the 1920s. During a time when traditional gender roles were in flux, conservative art critics and collectors celebrated Modersohn-Becker’s ability to give visual form to the “fervor of motherly love.”

Learn more and register at
neuegalerie.org/lectures ✨
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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Reclining Mother with Child II,” 1906, oil tempera on canvas. Paula Modersohn- Becker Museum, Bremen

“Favorite cake in the city: Sachertorte at Café Sabarsky”
– Tanmaya Godbole, Her New York Edit

Café Sabarsky seats guests on a first-come, first-served basis for breakfast and lunch. Dinner reservations are available via RESY. The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are now open six days a week, including Wednesdays!

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/cafesabarsky ✨

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In honor of we share “Cat in a Child’s Arms,” which was completed by Paula Modersohn-Becker in 1903. This work measures 32.5 x 25.6 cm (12 2⁄3 x 10 in.) – some of Modersohn-Becker’s compact paintings appear to be fragments from a larger whole, but most were conceived from the outset as modest-size pictures. The cat clasped in a child’s arm bears witness to the artist’s eye for noticing striking details, which she translated into bold paintings that emanate grandeur.

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Cat in a Child’s Arms,” ca. 1903, oil tempera on canvas. Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen.

What makes you spiral?

Cool off with a visit to Neue Galerie New York. The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are open six days a week, including Wednesdays!

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org ✨

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Summer is flying! Cheers to the start of August!

Café Sabarsky has its own private label wine. This special edition Gelber Muskateller, made from hand-picked ancient Muskatel grapes, was developed exclusively for Neue Galerie New York by the Wruss family winery, idyllically situated on a hilltop in Kranachberg, in the southern Styria section of Austria. The wine has an aromatic and fruity taste.

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/cafesabarsky

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Café Sabarsky’s private label Gelber Muskateller wine bottle is perched atop the sterling silver Hoffmann Wine Coaster and the wine is poured into the fine Patrician Wine Glass. Both exquisite designs by Josef Hoffmann are available for purchase in the Neue Galerie Design Shop.

Who else is enjoying Paris this summer?

Inspired by extended stays in Paris, Paula Modersohn-Becker explored more ambitious compositions for self-portraiture. In “Self-Portrait with Blue Glass” (ca.1902), the artist’s elegant dress and pose, the half-length format associated with royal portraits, and her direct gaze, all bespeak confidence. Standing in front of the Worpswede landscape, the artist holds a blue glass, which has been interpreted as a chalice symbolizing difficulties lying ahead. Symbolic ‘attributes’ of this kind—usually flowers and fruits—often feature in Modersohn-Becker’s portraits. Linked with purity, fertility, and the magical qualities she associated with nature, they increasingly took the place of background scenes.

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
June 6 - September 9, 2024

Get tickets at
neuegalerie.org/visit ✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Self-Portrait with Blue Glass,” ca. 1902, oil tempera on cardboard. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, acquired in 1968, formerly Hugo Borst Collection. Photo: © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

See you tonight! Neue Galerie New York is open late today, Friday, August 2 for First Fridays. Guests will be admitted free at 5 p.m. and the galleries will remain open until 8 p.m. Due to the popularity of First Fridays, please expect to wait in a line outside of the museum for entry. Admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me” and “Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie” are now on view. The Book Store, Design Shop, and Café Sabarsky remain open late during First Fridays as well.

First Fridays are made possible with the generous support of Bank of America.

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org/firstfridays✨

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Patrons viewing “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me” at Neue Galerie New York

Some like it hot! 🔥

Hermann Max Pechstein’s “Young Woman with Red Fan” (ca. 1910 ) is now on view on the second floor of the Neue Galerie.

NOW ON VIEW
“Spotlight: German Masterworks from the Kellen Foundation”

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org/kellenfoundationspotlight ✨

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Hermann Max Pechstein, “Young Woman with Red Fan,” ca. 1910, oil on canvas. Neue Galerie New York. This work is part of the collection of Estée Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Estée Lauder.
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To celebrate the exhibition “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” which is now on view, Neue Galerie New York hosted a drawing contest, inviting artists to submit a self-portrait and interpret what it means to be “me.” The contest jury selected eight winning works of art for public display at the museum. Please join us in celebrating the winners and thanking all who participated with a submission. Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is a major figure in the history of German Expressionism. In her brief career, she produced more than 700 paintings and around 1,400 drawings, and many of her works were self-portraits.

Top row, left to right:
Carolina Casterella, “Self Portrait”
Gail Postal, “Self Portrait”
Dorota Matys, “Cooling Down”
Shoshana Kertesz, “Shoshana”

Bottom row, left to right:
Susan Carr, “Self Portrait”
Agi Zwierz, “My Happy Place”
Jane Hirschman, “I am”
Ellen Abraham, “Cheeky”

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This special Drawing Contest presentation is on view on the Lower Level of the museum through September 9, 2024.

Register now for our next installment of Literatur Café on Monday, August 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Join award-winning playwright and prestigious New Dramatists alumnus Ken Prestininzi for a dramatic reading of “Beholder” with a cast of professional actors. Prestininzi’s play is based on passages from the notebooks and letters of Paula Modersohn-Becker and her friend, poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The script also takes inspiration from Rilke’s poem about Modersohn-Becker, entitled “Requiem for a Friend.”

Learn more and register at
neuegalerie.org/lectures ✨

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📷 Rainer Maria Rilke, ca. 1914. Photo courtesy ullstein bild.

📷 Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede, 1905. Photo: © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

A lesson in German:

🇩🇪 Matjes Herring, Ei, Apfel und rote Zwiebel auf Weizenbrot
🇺🇸Pickled herring, egg, apple, and red onion on wheat bread

Café Sabarsky seats guests on a first-come, first-served basis for breakfast and lunch. Dinner reservations are available via RESY. The museum, shops, and Café Sabarsky are now open six days a week, including Wednesdays!

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/cafesabarsky ✨

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Gustav Klimt took up landscape painting purely for his own pleasure, yet these noncommissioned idyllic scenes were highly coveted by collectors. He devoted much of his summer holidays while vacationing on the Attersee to such works and favored a square format—a reflection of his amateur pursuit of photography.

NOW ON VIEW
“Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), “Park at Kammer Castle,” 1909, oil on canvas. Neue Galerie New York. This work is part of the collection of Estée Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Estée Lauder

Paula Modersohn-Becker concentrated on self-portraiture, still-lifes, and highly original depictions of mother and child n**es. She broke new ground stylistically, absorbing influences from modern artists, such as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, and Vincent van Gogh. She discovered tribal art in the Trocadéro Museum at the same time as Pablo Picasso, and likewise began referencing African art in her proto-cubist figure paintings. Modersohn-Becker emerged as a trailblazer in modern art and a precursor of Expressionism.

NOW ON VIEW
“Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me”
Through September 9, 2024

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org✨

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Kneeling Mother with Child at Her Breast” (detail), 1906, oil tempera on canvas mounted on wood. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie Berlin. Photo: © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

Neue Galerie New York is delighted to present “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes,” a special exhibition opening on October 17, 2024. This show will investigate the importance of landscape in the Austrian artist’s work. Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele’s landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
“Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes”
October 17, 2024 - January 13, 2025

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org/schielelandscapes ✨

The exhibition is made possible in part by the Neue Galerie President’s Circle, Swarovski, and Withersworldwide.

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Egon Schiele, “Town among the Greenery (The Old City III),” 1917, oil on canvas. Neue Galerie New York, in memory of Otto and Marguerite Manley, given as a bequest from the Estate of Marguerite Manley

Join us on Thursday, August 1 at 6:30 p.m. for “Creative Acts,” a lecture presented by Anne Higonnet, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History at Barnard College. This lecture is part of a series organized in coordination with the Neue Galerie’s special exhibition, “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me,” exploring various aspects of Modersohn-Becker’s life and work.

How to express the hopes, fears, and physical experience of pregnancy or birth? Such subjects remained invisible until women began to become confident professional artists. This talk looks at some of the beautiful solutions to a vital human challenge, including Berthe Morisot, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Louise Bourgeois, Heiji Shin, and Carmen Winant.

Learn more and register at
neuegalerie.org/lectures ✨

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Berthe Morisot, “The Cradle,” 1872, oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Let’s get out for a summer stroll today!

August Macke’s “Strollers at the Lake II” (1912) is now on view on the second floor of the Neue Galerie. In this work, colors and lines break away from the objects and produce rhythmic sequences.

NOW ON VIEW
“Spotlight: German Masterworks from the Kellen Foundation”

Learn more at
neuegalerie.org/kellenfoundationspotlight ✨

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August Macke, “Strollers at the Lake II,” 1912, oil on canvas. Neue Galerie New York. This work is part of the collection of Estée Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Estée Lauder.

Building out your summer reading list? Visiting someone fabulous and looking for that perfect host gift?

The Neue Galerie’s Book Store and Design Shop offer a range of delights for these summer weeks ahead.

Visit shop.neuegalerie.org to explore a range of offerings!

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