Vienna celebrates Klimt’s anniversary Automatic translate

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), the Austrian genius of modernism, a connoisseur of female beauty and just an artist who was fanatically devoted to his work.

Klimt’s self-portraits were not of interest. Interested in women. Therefore, his work is frankly erotic. Klimt was a portrait painter of wealthy Viennese ladies. The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, for example, is by far one of the most expensive paintings in the world.

And his life partner, fashion designer Emilia Flöge, looks soft and infinitely feminine on his canvases.

Klimt’s most famous painting - “Kiss” - is located in the Belvedere. You can also see Judith there. This year, Vienna’s museums host many special exhibitions on the artist’s work.

In the Viennese Belvedere, as many as 22 paintings by Klimt are the largest collection of his works in the world. Some canvases are in the Leopold Museum, in Albertina, in the Museum of Vienna and in the Museum Quarter. Documents relating to Klimt and his time are in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), as well as in the National Library. In the anniversary year, all these places organize thematic exhibitions.

In the 1900s in Vienna, culture and art simply raged. Literature, painting, music and architecture were constantly fruitful. In 1910, two million people lived in Vienna, and it was the fifth largest city in the world, and undoubtedly one of the centers of cultural life in Europe.

Together with his brother Ernst Klimt and artist and sculptor Franz Mach, Gustav Klimt commissioned the decoration of some buildings on the Ringstrasse. Stairs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Burgtheater are also his work.

In 1897, Klimt and other artists founded the Vienna Secession. This art association has become a kind of protest against outdated concepts about art. For the Secession Hall, Klimt wrote a Beethoven Frieze. The Stockle Palace, located in Brussels, is also created in the Art Nouveau style and is a unique monument of the time. Klimt worked on it with the architect Joseph Hoffman.

In 1903, together with the same Joseph Hoffman and Kolo Moser, Klimt founded the Vienna workshop, which for a long time changed the understanding of design in society.

Klimt’s creativity and style gave way to new artists of that time. This, for example, Egon Schiele and Oscar Kokoschka. Klimt’s pure eco-creations have an impact on people’s minds, hearts and perceptions today. Thanks to him, that era revels in the imagination and is enveloped in a halo of mystery.

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