Gustav Klimt Center

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The  Gustav Klimt Center  in Schörfling am Attersee , Upper Austria is dedicated to the Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), who spent many summers on the Attersee and created some of his landscape paintings here. The Klimt Center was opened on July 14, 2012 on Klimt's 150th birthday and offers a permanent exhibition as well as its own Klimt cinema and the Gustav Klimt themed trail. Erich Kaniak is the owner of the building designed by the architect Günther Dollnig, in which the documentation center is located.

Gustav Klimt on the Attersee

Gustav Klimt's discovery of the Attersee as a refuge for the summer resort began in the summer of 1900. He first lived in Litzlberg near Seewalchen , from 1908 in Kammer and from 1914 in the south of the lake at the entrance to the Weißenbach valley. The painter regularly spent the summer months between 1900 and 1916 in this region, where most of his more than 50 landscape paintings were created.

exhibition

The permanent exhibition focuses on Klimt as well as biographically formative as well as artistic milestones in the life and work of the artist. Family, women, scandals, eroticism, summer holidays and worthy commissions are just as much a theme as the location of the Klimt Center, which is located directly on the avenue, because this motif of the castle park alone inspired Klimt to six landscape paintings. For individual visitors, the documentation of the Klimt Center also offers room texts and audio guides for personal deepening.

The multimedia exhibition with its own cinema, multimedia touchscreens and a Salzkammergut panorama in cooperation with the Filmarchiv Austria  documents Gustav Klimt's work and life as a "summer visitor" in the years 1900–1916 as well as social cultural tourism in a compilation of original and facsimile objects the turn of the century at the Attersee and in the imperial and royal seat of Vienna.

The cinema integrated in the Klimt Center has seating for 20 people and shows a twenty-minute film (title: Sehnsucht “nach there” , 2012) about Klimt's life and work on the Attersee.

Gustav Klimt themed trail

In September 2003 Gustav Klimt was honored with a themed trail on the Attersee. The opening at the time on the privately owned island of Litzlberg was made by museum founders Rudolf Leopold and Gerhard Tötschinger . Conceived curatorially by experts from the Leopold Museum , this resulted in the logical consequence of the conception of the Gustav Klimt Center on the Attersee, which opened almost ten years later. In this context, the themed trail was also relaunched and equipped with audio guides.

The core area of ​​the themed trail runs along the promenade in Kammer-Schörfling and in Seewalchen and provides an overview of Klimt's life and work as well as the motifs of his work in the vicinity of his summer domiciles Villa Paulick and Villa Oleander . Further information boards are located on the north bank in the area of ​​the village of Litzlberg (L1-L5) and on the south bank the theme trail continues selectively in Unterach , Steinbach and Weißenbach. The forester's house, Klimt's last summer residence on the Attersee (1914–1916), was also pictured twice by him. The steles in the other communities provide in-depth information about Klimt's visits to the Attersee. Some steles have square holes through which you can compose your own “Klimt landscapes” - similar to what Klimt did over 100 years ago with a cardboard “motif finder”. A German and English language text as well as selected images of paintings, photographs and postcards illustrate this journey of discovery. Through a knowledgeable Klimt mediator from the region, visitors can learn interesting facts and anecdotes from the life of Gustav Klimt on their walk along the themed trail. In addition, there is the artist theme path in the south in Steinbach and the Klimt bust by Valentin Znoba in Unterach.

Review 2012–2016

Gustav Klimt : Am Attersee , 1900, Leopold Museum , Vienna
Gustav Klimt : The Great Poplar II (Rising Thunderstorm) , 1902/03, Leopold Museum , Vienna
Gustav Klimt : A Morning at the Pond , 1899, Leopold Museum , Vienna

Since the opening of the Gustav Klimt Center in July 2012, numerous original works of art have been presented there. In cooperation with the Vienna Leopold Museum , which was also responsible for the curatorial conception of the exhibitions from 2012 to 2014, two landscape paintings returned to their place of origin: in 2012 the painting Am Attersee (1900 ), two years later the work Die große Pappel II (Rising Thunderstorm) (1902/03), emphasized by its characteristic “trout spots” . The painting A Morning at the Pond was created in 1899 in Golling, Salzburg, and was formative for Klimt's subsequent Attersee landscapes in a square format. From June 27 to August 2, 2015, following the takeover of the Gustav Klimt | Vienna 1900 Private Foundation as the operator of the Klimt Center, the original painting Friends I (The Sisters) from the holdings of the Klimt Foundation was exhibited in the Gustav Klimt Center was verifiably completed by the artist in September 1907 on the Attersee.

From March 26, 2016 to October 26, 2016, a special exhibition was devoted to Emilie Flöge , one of the style-setting fashion designers in Vienna at the turn of the century. The woman at Gustav Klimt's side was a successful and independent entrepreneur and owner of the fashion label »Salon Schwestern Flöge«. For the first time this season, contemporary works by the artists Bernadette Huber and Irene Andessner were presented.

The Klimt Foundation

The Gustav Klimt | Vienna 1900 Private Foundation ( Klimt Foundation ) has been running the Gustav Klimt Center since 2015. It was founded in September 2013 by Ursula Ucicky (* 1922), widow of Klimt's illegitimate son  Gustav Ucicky  (1899–1961), and is a non-profit private foundation registered under Austrian law , which, according to its statutes, provides cultural and art historical, scientific and pursued educational purposes. The Klimt Foundation functions as an independent and interdisciplinary platform for documenting the “Vienna 1900” era and acts as a lender and cooperation partner for research and exhibition projects. The aim is to preserve and research the life and work of the artist Gustav Klimt and the movement of Art Nouveau and Classical Modernism that originated in Vienna around 1900 and was influenced by Klimt, and to show their significance for the cultural development of Austria to this day.

The works of art brought into the Klimt Foundation are made accessible to the public in exhibitions and exhibition participations and are scientifically developed. In this context, the foundation is particularly dedicated to researching its provenance and, in accordance with the purpose of the foundation, to the objective-scientific analysis of the life, work and art collection of Gustav Ucicky. With this in mind, the Edition Klimt and Edition Klimt-Research series have already been published.

literature

  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: Gustav Klimt. Summer retreat at the Attersee 1900-1916 . Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 2015,  ISBN 978-3-85033-860-8 .
  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge - reform of fashion, inspiration of art . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2016,  ISBN 978-3-7106-0070-8 .
  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: Gustav Klimt. Atelier Feldmühlgasse 1911–1918 . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-846-2 .
  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: Gustav Klimt. Summer retreat at the Attersee 1900–1916 . Verlag Christian Brandstätter, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-860-8 .
  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge - reform of fashion, inspiration of art . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7106-0070-8 .
  • Sandra Tretter / Peter Weinhäupl [eds.]: "Code: Sehnsucht - 25". Gustav Klimt's correspondence with Maria Ucicka 1899–1916 . Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-859-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Klimt Center on the Attersee - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ Leopold Museum opens on July 14th Gustav Klimt Center on Attersee . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  3. ↑ General - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  4. ^ Gustav Klimt Center on the Attersee - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ The new exhibition should again attract numerous visitors to the Attersee. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The exhibition - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Klimt Cinema - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Review 2003-2012 - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ General - klimt-am-attersee.at. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Gustav Klimt & the summer freshness . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  11. ^ Klimt original on the Attersee: "Large Poplar" from Vienna's Leopold Museum . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  12. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Klimt's "Morning at the Pond" on summer vacation . ( salzburg.com [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  13. ↑ State Secretary Dr. Harald Mahrer opens a special exhibition in the Gustav Klimt Center on Lake Attersee . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Friends (Wasserschlangen I) - Works - Digitales Belvedere. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Emilie Flöge fashion designer at the Wiener Werkstätte. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  16. ^ Special exhibition in the Gustav Klimt Center on the Attersee: Emilie Flöge - Reform of fashion. Inspiration of art . In: ots.at . ( ots.at [accessed April 10, 2017]).
  17. ↑ History of the foundation's establishment - klimt-foundation.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  18. ↑ purpose of the foundation - klimt-foundation.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  19. ↑ purpose of the foundation - klimt-foundation.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Edition Klimt - klimt-foundation.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  21. ^ Edition Klimt Research - klimt-foundation.com. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .