Neue Galerie
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The Neue Galerie (German: "New Gallery") is a museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design located at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is one of the most recent additions to New York City's famed Museum Mile, which runs from 83rd to 105th streets on Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The museum was first conceived by two close friends, museum administrator and art dealer Serge Sabarsky and entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder. After Sabarsky's death in 1996, Lauder began transforming his extensive personal collection into a museum dedicated to his friend.
The collection of the Neue Galerie is divided into two sections. The second floor of the museum houses works of fine art and decorative art from early twentieth-century Austria, including paintings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele. The third floor exhibits various German works from the same era, including art movements such as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Die Brücke (The Bridge), and the Bauhaus. Featured artists on this floor include Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, and George Grosz.
The museum also contains a bookstore, design shop, and a Viennese cafe, "Café Sabarsky".
The museum is housed in an elegant town house in French seventeenth-century style, commissioned by industrialist William Starr Miller in 1914 from the New York-based architecture firm Carrère and Hastings, It was subsequently occupied by Grace Vanderbilt, the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III, and then by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research before being purchased by Lauder and Sabarsky in 1994. The building was fully renovated and restored to its original state before the Neue Galerie opened.
In 2006, the Neue Galerie purchased Klimt's painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, for a record $135 million.
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