ARTISTS' HOUSE (KÜNSTLERHAUS)
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Built in 1868 for modern artists, this renovated building reopened in 2020 as the modern Albertina.
The Künstlerhaus was built on Karlsplatz in 1868 to host exhibitions by contemporary artists. The structure was in need of renovation, and now it's done. After a major renovation campaign, the Artists' House reopened its doors to the public in 2020, as a lively part of Vienna's cultural landscape. In addition to its long-standing exhibition rooms, the building has also housed the Stadtkino cinema since its foundation. Long an organizer of major art exhibitions and retrospectives devoted to a particular period or theme, the Artists' House now focuses primarily on contemporary art. Its programming is of the highest quality.
For the record, construction of the building, built in the purest triumphant historicist (neoclassical) style between 1865 and 1868, was financed by a group of artists federated for the occasion, in the same way that musicians and music lovers of the time had founded the nearby Musikverein. However, the institution gradually sank into conservatism and the artisticestablishment . In 1897, dissidents, including Gustav Klimt, erected their own temple to the arts nearby: the Secession. A typically Viennese Art Nouveau was born.
The Künstlerhaus building now houses the modern Albertina, an extension of the Albertina still dedicated to contemporary art.
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