KLIMT IN VENICE.........

Show Klimt Venice

  "Almost a century after his acclaimed participation in the Venice Biennale (1910), Gustav Klimt back into the lagoon as the protagonist of an extraordinary exhibition. The occasion is important to celebrate the 150 th anniversary of his birth (1862-2012) exposure to the result of a co-production between the Venice Civic Museums Foundation and the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, by Alfreid Weidinger, one of leading experts of the Austrian artist.

"Gustav Klimt in the Secession and the sign of Hoffmann" presents through a great cycle of paintings, a rare and precious drawings, furniture and fine jewelry, but also elaborate reconstructions and interesting historical documents, the genesis and evolution, in architecture and painting, the work of Klimt and those with him gave birth to the Viennese Secession, characters like Love, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Koloman Moser, and especially the friend of so many intellectual adventures and planning, Josef Hoffmann.

In the halls of the Correr gathered together for the first time Judith I (1901) and by Judith II (1909), purchased at the Biennale in 1910 for the National Gallery of Modern Ca 'Pesaro, as well as some masterpieces of the Belvedere in Vienna the institution owns the largest collection of oil paintings by Klimt, and others from public and private collections including Lady in front of the fireplace (1897/98) and lovers (1901/1902), Hermine Gallia (1904), the Sunflower (1907). "