Klimt Dispute Prompts Leopold Museum Director to Resign
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Tobias Natter, the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, quit his post to protest ties between museum board members and a new foundation set up to manage a Nazi-era film director’s collection of Gustav Klimt artworks.
Gustav Ucicky (1899-1961) was a director of Nazi propaganda films and the son of Klimt and his lover Maria Ucicka, according to the Klimt Foundation, established in September. Board members include Peter Weinhaeupl, the business director of the Leopold Museum, his partner Sandra Tretter, his brother and the lawyer Andreas Noedl, also on the board of the Leopold Museum.