Cool. Erwin Hauser Collection

Erwin Hauser, Vice President of the Lentos Friends Association, donated his art collection of almost 3,000 works to the city of Linz and Lentos in 2024.

He thus enabled the museum to make the largest expansion since its foundation with the purchase of the Wolfgang Gurlitt Collection in 1953.

On this occasion, Lentos is presenting a first best-of, providing insights into the history of its creation and showing focal points of the high-calibre collection that the Linz entrepreneur has built up with a trained eye over the last 25 years. The Hauser Collection, which is one of the most important private collections in Austria, includes paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints by around 700 Austrian artists from the 19th century to the present day.