Summary
Vienna, as the satirist Karl Kraus said, was also a laboratory for world destruction. Since the opening of the Wellcome Collection's new, light-filled premises in 2007, the gallery has given us a number of conceptual exhibitions that mingle art and medicine in illuminating ways.
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Strange Meetings
Vienna at the fin de siècle was a crucible of modernity. Amid the nervy multicultural babble of tongues in the imperial city writers, artists, composers and architects josded with philosophers, social reformers and scientists. Sacher-Masoch, Freud, Wittgenstein, Boltzmann, Schnitzler, Karl Kraus, Mahler (Gustav and Alma), Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, Adolf Loos . . . the city's rollcall of greats goes on and on, sometimes even to include Trotsky, who stopped by ...
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