To celebrate this milestone year, Neue Galerie New York presents “25th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterworks from the Neue Galerie,” a celebratory installation of Austrian and German fine and decorative arts drawn primarily from the permanent collection. The opening offers visitors access to the galleries for the first time following a successful restoration project on the museum's historic building. The exhibition underscores the museum’s unique mission: to bring a sense of perspective back to Germanic culture of the early twentieth century, and to make the best of this work available to American and other audiences for both scholarly and aesthetic inquiry. Key works from the collection, including Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), as well as selected recent acquisitions, will commemorate the occasion. Together, they contribute to the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) that creates the unique jewel-box atmosphere of Neue Galerie New York.