Against this background, the upcoming temporary exhibition mounted by the Princely Collections is to be devoted to the fascinating history of the European art market. Spotlights will be shone on structures, centres of innovation, influential personalities and marketing methods from antiquity to the nineteenth century, revealing that many of these methods have changed very little up to the present day. Auctions were held in ancient imperial Rome. In Antwerp, art trade fairs were already attracting an international clientele in the sixteenth century, and the first catalogues raisonnés of Old Masters were compiled by art dealers in the eighteenth century.

These and other enthralling insights into the history of the European art market await visitors from 30 January 2026 at the Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna, with major works from the Princely Collections appearing alongside sensational loans in the largest annual temporary exhibition we have mounted to date.

Free admission! | No registration required