Part of the excellent MuseumsQuartier Wien, the Leopold Museum houses one of greatest collections of Austrian art anywhere in the world. Along with major works by the likes of Gustav Klimt ...

Director of the Leopold Museum, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, stands in front of the painting "Gray Day", 1921, by the painter George Grosz in the exhibition "Splendor and Misery - New Objectivity in ...

In November 2022, Letzte Generation activists rocked the world with their oil spill on Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. The incident occurred on Leopold day ...

Protesters from Last Generation Austria threw a black oily liquid on Gustav Klimt's painting "Tod und Leben" at the Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria, before glueing theirs hands to the frame.

That will change this month, when a new show at the Leopold Museum in Vienna highlights the artist’s First World War years. A major turning point came for the artist in 1915. That year he broke ...

VIENNA, Nov 15 (Reuters ... on the screen in front of Klimt's "Death and Life", opens new tab at the Leopold Museum, before being intercepted by a member of staff while another activist apparently ...

Climate activists in Austria today poured a black, oily liquid over Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's masterpiece 'Death and Life' at Vienna's Leopold Museum. Two members of the group 'Last ...

Gustav Klimt's Death and Life), 1910-15, oil on canvas, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria. Activists from the climate protest group Letzte Generation poured what they described as oil all over Klimt ...

As part of the initiative A Few Degrees More, Vienna’s Leopold Museum has tilted 15 paintings by the number of degrees unchecked climate change could affect the landscapes depicted. The ...

Two activists for Letzte Generation (Last Generation) throw "a black, oily liquid" at a painting by Klimt at the Leopold Museum in Vienna on November 15, 2022. Photo courtesy of Letzte Generation ...