The Family of Otto Kallir to Gift Over 100 Works of Austrian Expressionism to LACMA

(Los Angeles, CA—October 8, 2025) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced a gift of more than 130 works of Austrian Expressionism from the family of Otto Kallir, including the first paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Richard Gerstl to enter the collection. Transferred to LACMA over several years, the donation broadly surveys Austrian Expressionism from its roots at the turn of the 20th century to the 1920s with paintings, more than 100 drawings, prints, and posters, and a selection of works by artist-designers who were affiliated with the Wiener Werkstätte, founded in 1903. In addition to the paintings by Klimt, Schiele, and Gerstl, the donation includes works by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and by the German artists Lovis Corinth and Käthe Kollwitz. The works on paper will join the holdings of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at LACMA.