LACMA Receives Gift of 130 Austrian Expressionist Works from Otto Kallir Family
On October 8, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a gift of more than 130 works of Austrian Expressionism from the family of Otto Kallir. The donation includes the first paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Richard Gerstl to enter the collection, along with works by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Lovis Corinth, and Käthe Kollwitz. Transferred over several years, the gift surveys Austrian Expressionism from the turn of the 20th century to the 1920s through paintings, more than 100 drawings, prints, and posters, plus works by artists affiliated with the Wiener Werkstätte.
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The addition bolsters LACMA's holdings of early 20th-century European modernism and directly augments the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies with the works on paper. For curators and collectors, the transfer establishes a new institutional benchmark for Austrian Expressionist material on the West Coast and signals expanded opportunities for research and display of Klimt, Schiele, and their contemporaries.
- Artists: Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Lovis Corinth, Käthe Kollwitz
- People: Otto Kallir
- Museums: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
- Locations: Los Angeles
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