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Item Number: 136837
Title: Au temps de Klimt : La Sécession à Vienne
Author: Weidinger, Alfred (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788866482550
Description: Milano: Motta 24 ore Cultura, 2015. 31cm., hardcover, 230pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition held at Pinacotheque, Paris. French text.

Summary: The exhibition In the Time of Klimt, The Vienna Secession relates in detail that development in Viennese art from the end of the 19th century, beginning of the Viennese Secession, until the first years of Expressionism. The core of the exhibition is based on a selection of major works by Gustav Klimt, from his first years of studying until the major works of his golden age, like Judith I (1901) or the Beethoven Frieze, a monumental work, reconstituted to scale and shown for the very first time in France. A group of rare documents regarding the artist's life, his family and his brothers Ernst and Georg, who were also artists, with whom Gustav often collaborated, accompanies the visitor throughout the exhibition. A very particular attention is furthermore paid to the first years of the Secession and to the influence it exercides on the artist's formation through the major Viennese intellectuals, such as Carl Schuch, Tina Blau, Théodor Hörmann, Josef Engelhart, Max Kurzweil, who, just like him, spent time in Paris at that period. the artistic personalities who influenced his art are summoned up thanks to a choice of paintings coming from the Belvedere, presented alongside works describing the history of the movement's patrons. Thus, the exhibition shows important masterpieces from the Secession and from the Austrian vanguard, such as the first works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. A final section of the exhibition is devoted to Viennese art forms, to the ancient and refined trade of craftsmanship, which engendered pieces of furniture, and to precious jewels, to splendid ceramics, as well as complex reconstructions of works and of rich historical documents, witnesses to the genesis and to the evolution of great artists and architects of that period, such as Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann and the Viennese Studio. The exhibition shows over 180 works taken from the collections of the Belvedere museum in Vienna, as well as from private collections. The curatorship of the exhibition is ensured by Alfred Weidinger, curator of the Belvedere museum in Vienna.

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