200 Masterpieces
This catalogue presents 200 masterpieces from the Essl collection, underlining the international importance of the collection. Among others it includes works by Alex Katz, David Salle, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Peter Halley, Philip Taaffe, Sean Scully, Gilbert & George, Sarah Morris, Cecily Brown, Tony Cragg, Marc Quinn, Georg Baselitz, Albert Oehlen, Stephan Balkenhol, Daniel Richter, Jonathan Meese, Neo Rauch, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri, Antoni Tàpies y Puig, Fang Lijun, Minjun Yue, Xiaogang Zhang, Nam June Paik, Annette Messager, Bill Viola, Tony Oursler, Peter Land, Tal R and Virgilius Moldovan. These masterpieces by international artists are confronted with works by well known Austrian artists as Martha Jungwirth, Gelitin, VALIE EXPORT, Hermann Nitsch, Markus Prachensky, Arnulf Rainer, Hubert Scheibl, Franz West and many others more. A short text introduces each work, an interview with the collector Karl Heinz Essl completes the book.
