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gennaio 18, 2019 - Leopold Museum

KLIMT - MOSER - GERSTL at Leopold Museum


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KLIMT - MOSER - GERSTL

06.12.2018 - 10.03.2019

The #leopoldmuseum houses the largest and most eminent compilation of masterpieces by Egon Schiele and an equally unique collection of key artworks from “Vienna around 1900”. The exhibition “Klimt - Moser – Gerstl” showcases select works by the main representatives of Jugendstil – Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and Koloman Moser (1868–1918), as well as the trailblazing early Expressionist Richard Gerstl (1883–1908).

Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre marks the onset of modern art in Austria. Two decades before Klimt emerged as a battlesome campaigner against the art of Historicism, he himself had been part of this cultural era informed by classical traditions. An artistic paradigm shift and the development of an individual style became apparent in the mid-1890s, when Klimt created first drafts for the Faculty Paintings for the ceremonial hall of #vienna University. With his ornamental-decorativestyle, Klimt became not only the most eminent exponent of the Vienna Secession but also a sought-after portraitist of the ladies of the Viennese bourgeoisie. From the turn of the century onwards, he also started to create elegiac landscapes which further increased his renown. In his work Death and Life from the collection of the #leopoldmuseum, Klimt addressed the natural cycle of coming into being and passing away in an unconsciously oneiric and haunting manner.

Koloman Moser became one of the most characteristic figures of the Secession. Dubbed an “artist of a thousand talents” (Hermann Bahr), he furnished numerous illustrations for the Secession’s magazine Ver Sacrum, was responsible for the design of many Secession exhibitions, was a professor at the present-day University of Applied Arts #vienna, a co-founder (together with Josef Hoffmann and Fritz Waerndorfer) and busy designer of the Wiener Werkstätte, a stage designer and not least a painter of landscapes and Symbolist figure depictions.

Richard Gerstl, of whose works the #leopoldmuseum owns the most comprehensive collection thanks to Rudolf Leopold, went against the program of the #vienna Secession both stylistically and in terms of content. Contrary to any traditions, he created a radically unconventional, if small oeuvre based on stylistic experiments, characterizing him as a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism.

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