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  • Gustav Klimt, Insel am Attersee, ca. 1900-1902
    Image of square-format oil painting by Gustav Klimt depicting a lake in dappled shades of green, blue, purple and yellow
  • Egon Schiele, The Bridge, 1913
    Image of square-format painting by Egon Schiele depicting a bridge along the left side of the composition, predominantly rendered in shades of tan, green and brown
  • Egon Schiele exhibition, Galerie St. Etienne, NY, 1960
    Image of a black and white photograph of an art gallery interior showing oil paintings hung on the left and center walls
  • Grandma Moses, Early Springtime on the Farm, 1945, © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York
    Image of colorful painting by Grandma Moses showing a rural farmstead in early spring. There is white snow on the ground while trees show first signs of green leaves. A gaggle of geese is in the foreground and people mill about outside doing farm tasks.

  • Our Mission

    The Kallir Research Institute is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the history and legacy of the Galerie St. Etienne (1939-2020) and its founder, Otto Kallir (1894-1978). As authors of catalogues raisonnés on Egon Schiele, Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses and Richard Gerstl, and administrators of the Galerie St. Etienne’s historical archives, the KRI aims to support critical research on Austrian and German Expressionism and self-taught artists.

  • a square-format painting by Egon Schiele showing two angular, spindly trees, each atop a shallow triangular hill. the hills and... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    a painting of a young, ochre-haired white girl in profile before a light green wall with pink and brown accents.... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    a charcoal drawing on gray paper showing 5 anguished adults with 7 children in a shallow space. the central female... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    frontal portrait drawing of an oval-faced man with a close-cropped haircut. his face is rendered in fine pencil lines and... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    a long horizontal painting in shades of dark blue, gray and green showing a reclined white man dressed as a... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    painting by John Kane in a naive art style showing an interior view of an artist studio. an older, gray-haired... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    painting by Grandma Moses in a folk art style depicting a bucolic rural landscape with farm homes, a river running... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    square format painting by Gustav Klimt depicting a caucasian baby and top center wearing a rainbow patterned gown that fills... (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Egon Schiele, Autumn Sun I (Sunrise), 1912

  • What We Do

    The Kallir Research Institute (KRI) focuses on the artists formerly represented by the Galerie St. Etienne, with especially rich resources on Richard Gerstl, John Kane, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses and Egon Schiele. The KRI archives and library also include a broad range of material on Austrian and German Expressionism, the Wiener Werkstätte and self-taught American and European artists.

     

    The Kallir Research Institute’s archive and library are available to qualified scholars by appointment. Our digital resources include the comprehensive Egon Schiele catalogue raisonné, egonschieleonline.org. Digital catalogues raisonnés for Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses and Richard Gerstl are in preparation.  The KRI provides opinions of authenticity on works attributed to Egon Schiele or Grandma Moses. 

     

    The Kallir Research Institute curates, consults and coordinates loans for museum exhibitions in its areas of expertise. We also organize and participate in conferences, lectures and panels on Austrian and German Expressionism and self-taught artists.