Barbara Warnock, senior curator, says: "This summer we've completely ripped out and renewed the exhibition space. We've basically changed everything about it, all the showcases, the décor, the lighting."
The library has chosen to use sculpture to show off the potential of the new space, with an exhibition of works by Kormis, who used art to highlight the plight of victims of conflict and concentration camps.
Kormis became a skilled portrait medallist, depicting figures including Winston Churchill. That year he held his first solo exhibition at the Bloomsbury Gallery, not far from where the Wiener library sits today.
Kormis had a life worthy of a film script. Fighting for the Austrian army in World War I, he was injured and imprisoned by Russia in a Siberian camp for five years.
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