Curator: Prof. Agnes Essl
Exhibition management: Andreas Hoffer

In this exhibition, the art collector Agnes Essl takes a look at artists whose work has been represented in The Essl Collection from its inception and who have become creative associates of long standing. “In our first guest-book I found an invitation to a preview of Kurt Moldovan’s work for 10 November 1979. This exhibition was one of the first we had organised in a very private context in our home for our relatives and a few friends. Then others followed, among them Rudolf Hradil, Herbert Breiter, Ernst Gradischnig, Gottfried Salzmann, Markus Vallazza, Hans Kruckenhauser and Giselbert Hoke. That was the beginning of our collection! It is a heartfelt concern of mine to show the works by these artist personalities, who have become our associates, friends and creative signposts in the course of many years. I wanted to show them together in a single exhibition because I feel that they are linked by a red thread. The finely structured watercolours, lithographs, drawings and oil paintings will be showcased together at the Schoömer-Haus.”

Prof. Agnes Essl

In the 1970s, through the good offices of Kurt Moldovan, the art collectors met a number of Austrian artists from Salzburg and Carinthia. Many of them have done outstanding work in the areas of graphic art and watercolours, and it is very rewarding to explore their work in this focused and calm discipline, a discipline that is non- spectacular in the very best sense of the term. Apart from oil paintings and graphic art, Agnes Essl will also show an artist’s book by Moldovan: Alice in Wonderland.

Visitors can see the exhibition for free at the Schoömer-Haus, the company headquarters of the baumax / Schoömer group, just a few minutes’ walk away from the Essl Museum.

Participating artists
Herbert Breiter, Ernst Gradischnig, Giselbert Hoke, Rudolf Hradil, Hans Kruckenhauser, Kurt Moldovan, Gottfried Salzmann, Markus Vallazza

KURT MOLDOVAN Blatt aus der Mappe: Alice im Wunderland, 1973 24-teilig Ed. 1/150 Lithografie auf Papier 48 x 33 cm Sammlung Essl Inv. Nr. 2769 Foto: Stefan Fiedler – Salon Iris, Wien © Nachlass des Künstlers	GOTTFRIED SALZMANN New York-Reflectionen II, 1984 Aquarell auf Papier 23 x 35 cm Foto: Archiv Sammlung Essl © VBK, Wien, 2010

GISELBERT HOKE Peru, 1984 Aquarell auf Papier 50 x 66 cm Foto: Archiv Sammlung Essl © VBK, Wien, 2010	RUDOLF HRADIL Gartensessel mit Blumen, 1982 Öl auf Leinwand 81 x 66 cm Foto: Archiv Sammlung Essl © Nachlass des Künstlers

Free bus shuttle

Visitors can reach the Essl Museum and the Schömer-House conveniently by free bus shuttle from Vienna city centre, Albertinaplatz 2, (Tues – Sun, 10 a.m., 12 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and return)

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