Gustav Klimt

This exhibition provides an overview of one hundred years of Viennese painting, thanks to a journey into the heart of the colourful and luminous works of Gustav Klimt.

In late nineteenth-century Imperial Vienna, Gustav Klimt was one of the major decorative painters of the sumptuous monuments on the Ringstrasse. At the dawn of the new century, he led the Vienna Secession, a movement that sought to break away from academic art. Both famous and contested, Klimt paved the way to modern painting. The gold and decorative motifs that characterize his works are a symbol of this artistic revolution. The exhibition also includes works by the major Viennese artist Egon Schiele, Klimt’s heir and successor.

The exhibition thus takes an original look at Klimt and his successors through a presentation of the portraits, landscapes, nudes, colours, and gilding that revolutionized Viennese painting at the end of the nineteenth century and during the next century.