Gustav Klimt, das MAK und Schloss Immendorf

Gustav Klimt and the Immendorf Castle

Roy Lichtenstein, the master of pop type 100 years old. The Albertina celebrates the artist with a comprehensive retrospective that gathers over 90 paintings, sculptures and graphics.

Thanks to the generous loans from 30 loaning agents - international museums and private collectors - the most important works of his extensive work from all over the world will travel to Vienna, including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery, Washington, the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

The idea for this exhibition was together with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation on a generous gift of around 100 works Albertina born.

Roy Lichtenstein is known for his clichéd blondes, war heroes and comic figures with speech bubbles. In the 1960s, he shaped the American art scene with gaudy, bright colors, clear lines and the characteristic Ben-Day points that imitated the cheap printing technique of comics with his cartoon aesthetics. will be seen together for the first time in decades. Furthermore, the exhibition of Lichtenstein's iconic painting of objects of product advertising in black and white, as well as landscapes in enamel technology and art-after art pictures according to Picasso, Dalì, Kirchner or Pollock. A special highlight is a huge brushstroke sculpture that leaves the canvas and convers the room.

Together with Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein is one of the most influential and significant American artists of the 20th century. Lichtenstein Estate realized.

The exhibition can be seen in the Albertina from March 8 to July 14, 2024.