Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Hauptgebäude am Schillerplatz

Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Hauptgebäude am Schillerplatz

Helmut Wimmer

Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Vienna

The Academy's art collections comprise the Paintings Gallery, the Graphic Collection and the Plaster Cast Collection. They house approximately 1,200 paintings and over 100,000 works on paper from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as about 450 plaster casts.

The presence of such high-quality and extensive historical collections at an art academy is a special feature. The collections are meeting spaces for research, teaching and art enthusiasts and are open to the public in the form of a study hall and museum. The Paintings Gallery holds unparalleled treasures such as the Last Judgment Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch and masterpieces by renowned artists such as Cranach the Elder, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Guardi.

The Graphic Collection is one of the most important graphic collections in Austria and constitutes the visual memory of the Academy. With its approximately 450 preserved plaster casts, the Plaster Cast Collection offers a unique overview of European sculpture history.

To the digitised objects in Kulturpool