New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum

New York’s Neue Galerie, founded by philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder in 2001 and known for Austrian and German Modernism, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. The Neue Galerie is scheduled to close for renovations on 27 May and reopen in autumn, ahead of its 25th anniversary in November. As part of the merger, Lauder and his daughter Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer will donate 13 works of German and Austrian Modern art, including pieces by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Schad, and Gustav Klimt. The museum’s Fifth Avenue building (the William Starr Miller House at 86th Street) will become the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, with Café Sabarsky and existing programming continuing, supported by an endowment and additional trustee fundraising led by Marina Kellen French.

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