CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 4/2017

SAVOIR VIVRE BEAUTY AND THE ABYSS
Ägypten I, aus Gustav Klimts 1890-91
für das Kunsthistorische Museum Wien
geschaffenem Wandgemälde-Zyklus.
Egypt I, by Gustav Klimt, circular wall
painting created for the Kunsthistorisches
Museum Wien in 1890-91.
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V.o.n.u.: Gustav Klimts (unvollendetes) Portrait Johanna Staude,
1918. Egon Schiele, Tod und Mädchen, 1915. Portrait Otto
Wagner von G. T. Kempf von Hartenkampf, 1896.
Top to bottom: Gustav Klimt (unfinished) portrait Johanna
Staude, 1918. Egon Schiele, Death and the Maiden, 1915. Portrait
Otto Wagner by G. T. Kempf von Hartenkampf, 1896.
ner Moderne mit ihren künstlerischen Umbrüchen
und Neuerungen, zu ergründen.
The Wiener Moderne almost manically included
all areas of social life and presented revolutionary
and unheard of events to the astonished
public practically every week: Gustav Klimt‘s
“Kiss“, his Beethoven Frieze, Otto Wagner‘s houses
along Wienzeile street, the Stadtbahn city railway and
the Postsparkasse building, the Wiener Werkstätten,
Koloman Moser‘s epochal graphic designs, Egon
Schiele‘s breakthrough self-portraits, the “Tractatus
logico-philosophicus“ by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund
Freud‘s “dream interpretation“, Arnold
Schoenberg‘s piece “Verklärte Nacht“ (“Transfigured
Night”) – all were given to the world during a period
of only 20 years between 1898 and 1918.
Vienna as the centre of the world
Jugendstil, twelve tone music, psychoanalysis –
Vienna was electrified during the dawn of a new era.
After the completion of the Ringstrasse boulevard,
the capital of Austria-Hungary suddenly became one
of the most modern cities in Europe and quickly developed
into a thriving centre for new ideas. People
from all parts of the monarchy flocked to Vienna –
between 1900 and 1910 alone, the population rose
from 1.68 to just over 2 million (a peak that Vienna
is expected to reach again in 2030). 1918 was then a
year of destiny – not only politically with the end of
the First World War and the collapse of the monarchy
that made Vienna the capital of the new, greatly
shrunken, republic. Even in the field of art, the death
of four important protagonists of Wiener Moderne
was a turning point. The works of Gustav Klimt,
Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner nevertheless
played a considerable part in this unprecedented
period and to this day represent much of
what the rest of the world considers as genuine Viennese.
Wiener Moderne represented in 2018
The 100th anniversary of the death of the four artists
in 2018 will be the occasion for a whole series of
exhibitions under the motto “Beauty and the Abyss“
that will make the exciting time of Vienna as a leader
of the international avant-garde come to life. The Leopold
Museum presents its comprehensive collection
of Egon Schiele photographs, poems and his personal
objects. Great paintings by Egon Schiele are also
shown at the Belvedere, brought into focus by means
of sketches, preliminary studies and related works by
contemporaries. With the exhibition “Beyond Klimt“,
the Belvedere illuminates the aftermath of Wiener
Moderne in the newly created national states of Central
Europe. Fanny von Arnstein, Sophie von Todesco
and Berta Zuckerkandl, the famous hosts of the salons
of the turn of the century are the subject of an
exhibition at the Jewish Museum. The Secession
shows exciting works and documents from the first
years of the breakthrough artist association, to which
founders Klimt and Koloman Moser belonged.
The Wiener Moderne furniture designs by Otto
Wagner, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos are presented
in Hofmobiliendepot. Designs and works by Koloman
Mosers for the Wiener Werkstätte can be admired
at the MAK, while the Vienna Museum devotes
a comprehensive exhibition to Otto Wagner‘s buildings
and urban utopias. The fantastic buildings by
Otto Wagner for Vienna are probably best viewed in
an extensive city walk including a ride with the U4
underground – the city train stations designed by
Wagner over 100 years ago still meet the needs of a
modern city. In any case, 2018 offers numerous opportunities
to explore the many facets of this period
of Wiener Moderne that was so transformational for
Vienna with its artistic upheavals and innovations.
PHOTOS: BELVEDERE, WIEN (2); WIEN MUSEUM; KHM
AUSSTELLUNGS-HIGHLIGHTS 2018, SCHÖNHEIT UND ABGRUND / WIENER MODERNE | EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS BEAUTY AND THE ABYSS I WIENER MODERNE
Klimt ist nicht das Ende. Aufbruch
in Mitteleuropa.
Unteres Belvedere, 22.3.–26.8.2018
belvedere.at
Egon Schiele – Wege einer
Sammlung
Belvedere Orangerie, 19.10.2018–
17.2.2019
belvedere.at
Die nackte Wahrheit. Klimt
konfrontiert.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien,
voraussichtlich März–September 2018
khm.at
Stairway to Klimt
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien,
13.2.–2.9.2018
khm.at
Otto Wagner
Wien Museum, 15.3.-7.10.2018
wienmuseum.at
Koloman Moser
MAK – Österreichisches Museum für
Angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst,
20.12.2018–22.4.2019
mak.at
Egon Schiele. Expression und Lyrik
Leopold Museum, 23.2.-4.11.2018
leopoldmuseum.org
Arnstein, Todesco, Zuckerkandl.
Gastgeberinnen und ihre Salons
zwischen Kunst und Politik.
Jüdisches Museum Wien, 24.4.-
30.9.2018
jmw.at
Wagner, Hoffmann, Loos und das
Möbeldesign der Wiener Moderne.
Hofmobiliendepot, 21.3.-7.10.2018
hofmobiliendepot.at
Berg, Wittgenstein, Zuckerkandl.
Drei Zentralfiguren der Wiener
Moderne. Literaturmuseum, ab April
2018
onb.ac.at
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Die Tractatus
Odyssee (100 Jahre Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus)
Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut „Haus
Wittgenstein“, 15.10.-30.11.2018
haus-wittgenstein.at
Die Salonkultur des alten Wien –
Glanzvolle Bühne einer Gesellschaft
Ernst Fuchs Museum (Otto Wagner
Villa), Juni-September 2018
ernstfuchsmuseum.at
Adolf Frohner, Hochzeit der Schwestern (Detail), 1967, Sammlung Gabriel, Foto: Christian Redtenbacher
Klimt Villa
Führungen 2018: „Gustav Klimt, Leben
und Werk“, „Internationaler Jugendstil“,
„Japonismus“ u.a. (Termine auf Anfrage
und auf der Webseite
klimt.at
FOKUS
FROHNER
DIE SAMMLUNG GABRIEL
15.10.2017–08.04.2018