The very best that is on offer in Austria
From 2 January, the Lentos Kunstmuseum is in the enviable position of being able to put on display the very best works of art from Austrian collections. Ranging across all styles and drawn from different centuries, “Best of Austria” will dazzle through its sheer variety alone.
In order to live up to what people expect from the art collection of a European Capital of Culture, the Lentos Kunstmuseum and Linz09 did the obvious thing: they appealed to Austria’s top collections for support, cap in hand. The result need fear no comparison: more than thirty Austrian museums, private or corporate collections and foundations supplied three works each. They are now on display in “Best of Austria”.The decision what works were going to make the cut was deliberately left to the contributors themselves. In this way the “ideal art collection” will inevitably trigger a debate what standards and criteria a “best of” Austria’s cultural heritage has to meet.
