{"id":3931,"date":"2012-06-23T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2012-06-23T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T11:15:11","slug":"celebrating-150-years-of-gustav-klimt-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/celebrating-150-years-of-gustav-klimt-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 150 Years of Gustav Klimt Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gustav Klimt<\/a>, the Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent artists of the Vienna Secession movement, is being feted this year throughout the art world on a global scale in honor of his 150th<\/sup> birthday anniversary celebration.\u00a0 Klimt, born July 14, 1862 (-February 6, 1918), is best known for his use of gold leaf and the sheer opalescence – and eroticism \u2013 of some of his works.<\/p>\n

\"Klimt<\/a><\/div>\n

From May 24 to August 27th<\/sup>, the Neue Gallerie in New York City joins other museums around the world to celebrate his extraordinary talent and legacy. In his birthplace of Vienna, Austria, museums including the Albertina, the Belevedre (which houses the most complete works of Klimt anywhere), the Leopold, the Wien, and the Kunsthistorisches are all focusing on and honoring varied aspects of Klimt’s work.<\/p>\n

Klimt\u2019s major works were vast: painting, murals, sketches, as well as other art objects were all part of Klimt\u2019s vision. While nature played a part in his subjects (Tree of Life<\/a>, and Apple Tree<\/a>) with an emphasis on the deeper meaning behind these works, his primary \u2013 and favorite subject \u2013 was the female body.<\/p>\n

\"Klimt<\/div>\n

With the female body, Klimt envisioned goddesses:\u00a0 sensual and statuesque.\u00a0 Being a leader in the Vienna Secession movement, a movement which had no manifesto, no declaration, and no one particular style (Symbolists, Naturalists, Realists all coexisted and encouraged one another), it\u2019s no wonder that Klimt brought the group\u2019s symbol \u2013 Pallas Athena \u2013 to 2-D life.\u00a0 Athena, the Greek goddess of the arts, just causes, strategy, and wisdom were painted by Klimt in 1898. This work was part of his \u201cgolden era\u201d, using gold leaf and silver, encrusting the canvas, raised in places.\u00a0 As part of this \u201cGolden Phase,\u201d Klimt created perhaps his most famous work, The Kiss.<\/a><\/p>\n

Athena was not the only goddess or goddess-like woman he painted. Hygieia<\/a> \u2013 the representation of Medicine \u2013 was a prime example of this, along with his painting of Judith<\/a>. Yet, many of these paintings caused a scandal in Vienna society, with an outcry by the public, deeming his works \u201cpornographic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Gustav Klimt: 150th<\/sup> Anniversary Celebration at the Neue Gallerie<\/a> in New York City, many of Klimt\u2019s most famous works are on exhibition from the museum\u2019s collection: Pale Face <\/em>(1903), Adele Bloch-Bauer I<\/a><\/em> (1907) (which was bought by the museum’s co-founder, Ronald Lauder for a record-breaking $135 million in 2006), The Black Feather Hat<\/a> <\/em>(1910), The Park of Schloss Kammer <\/em>(ca. 1910), Forester House in Weissenbach on the Attersee <\/em>(1914), Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee <\/em>(1916), and the late work, The Dancer<\/em> (1916-18), as well as rare and never-seen photos of the artist. I had the pleasure of visiting<\/a> the Neue Gallerie a few years back.<\/p>\n

Along with the paintings and photos, several of Klimt’s sketches are also on exhibition \u2013 most importantly for his project, the Beethoven Frieze<\/a>. This particular project was completed in 1902 for the 14th<\/sup> Vienna Secessionist exhibition.\u00a0 This frieze was painted right onto the walls of the building and afterward was thankfully preserved. But, it took over 75 years for the public to see it, going on display for the first time in 1986.<\/p>\n

Now, in 2012, 150 years after the birth of one of the most influential artists in the world, we don\u2019t have to wait to view the true genius of Gustav Klimt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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