Galerie Gugging near Klosterneuburg shows and sells Art Brut (outsider art) produced at the psychiatric institution at Gugging, where psychiatrist Leo Navratil began giving materials to visually talented patients in the 1970s. Artists including Johann Hauser, August Walla, and Oswald Tschirtner produced work that became internationally collected and is now in major museums. The gallery opened in 2006 on the same campus where artists still live and work. 25 minutes by S-Bahn from Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof. Admission fee; check galeriegugging.com for hours. One of the genuinely unusual art destinations in the Vienna day-trip range.
museum in Klosterneuburg
Galerie Gugging
The Galerie Gugging in Maria Gugging near Klosterneuburg north of Vienna shows and sells work by the artists of the Art Brut (outsider art) tradition that emerged from the psychiatric institution at Gugging.
- Type
- museum
- Destination
- Klosterneuburg
- Cost
- Paid entry
- Founded
- 2006
- Era
- Contemporary
- Address
- Am Campus 2, 3400 Maria Gugging, 3400 Klosterneuburg
- Coordinates
- 48.3089, 16.2578
- Official website
- Visit website