Neue Galerie, Art museum in Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, United States
Neue Galerie is a museum for Austrian and German art on Fifth Avenue, housed in a narrow five-story townhouse built of gray limestone. The rooms spread across several floors and display paintings, prints, sculptures, as well as furniture and decorative arts from the period between 1890 and 1940.
Serge Sabarsky, an art dealer from Vienna, and Ronald Lauder opened the house at the start of the 21st century after they had built a private collection together over many years. The founding followed the wish to make Central European modern art permanently accessible in New York.
The museum takes its name from an exhibition hall in Vienna that once showed modern art, preserving this link to Central European tradition. Visitors walk through rooms where furniture, lamps, and everyday objects from the Wiener Werkstätte period stand alongside paintings and drawings.
The museum sits in the Museum Mile zone on Fifth Avenue, a few blocks north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and within walking distance of Central Park. Admission is free on two afternoons each month, and on those days the rooms fill quickly with visitors.
The most famous painting in the house shows Adele Bloch-Bauer in golden robes and was returned after a long legal dispute between heirs and the Republic of Austria. This work changed hands for a very high sum and belongs today to the most expensive paintings ever sold.
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