Tobias G. Natter

Tobias G. Natter, Artistic Director, Leopold Museum

Tobias G. Natter (born 26 May 1961 in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian art historian and internationally renowned expert for the art of Vienna 1900.

Career

Natter studied at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich and Vienna and graduated with a PhD in 1988. He began his museum career at the Historisches Museum Wien, after which he spent 15 years with the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, finally serving as the institution's head curator. Natter also acted as a frequent consultant and guest curator for the Jewish Museum Vienna, which was re-established in 1990. In 2001, he realized an exhibition on Oskar Kokoschka as the first major loan exhibition to be held by the Neue Galerie New York. From 2006 to 2011 Natter served as director of the vorarlberg museum (formerly Vorarlberger Landesmuseum) in Bregenz. In October 2011 Natter followed Prof. Rudolf Leopold as artistic director of the Leopold Museum Vienna. On October 28, 2013 he declared his dismission from this function due to turbulences with his CFO Peter Weinhäupl and Weinhäupl's involvement with the Gustav Klimt Wien 1900 Privatstiftung featuring the Klimt collection of Gustav Ucicky, a prominent figure of NS film-making.[1] After stepping back the art historian established a company of his own, Natter Fine Arts which is actually developing i.a. exhibition projects for the Neue Galerie New York, the Belvedere Vienna and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and is appraising the artistic bequest of the painter Maria Lassnig.

Publications

Several books and papers published both by and about Tobias G. Natter, the most recent of which are:

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