Austrian avant-garde

Home for this was provided for a few crucial years in the 70s of the last century by two galleries in the centre of Vienna.

The Grünangergasse 12 gallery (1972-75) by Kurt Kalb and the Schapira & Beck gallery (1975-77) by Kurt Schapira and Peter Ernst Allmayer-Beck in Ballgasse were places of development and security for the painters who had brought in a new modernism