Klimt Foundation

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Gustav Klimt | Vienna 1900 private foundation
legal form Art foundation
founding 2013
Founder Ursula Ucicky
Seat Vienna new building ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 11.6 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 25.6 ″  E )
main emphasis Gustav Klimt and the Vienna of the Belle Epoque
Chair Peter Weinhäupl
Website klimt-foundation.com
Originated from the restitution of Klimt's painting Water Snakes II

The Gustav Klimt | Vienna 1900 Private Foundation (Klimt Foundation) was established in September 2013 by Ursula Ucicky (* 1922), widow of the film director and Klimt's illegitimate son Gustav Ucicky (1899–1961), and is a private foundation registered under Austrian law , which, according to her Foundation statute pursues charitable, cultural and art historical, scientific and educational purposes.

history

Gustav Ucicky is considered the first illegitimate son of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and became known as a cameraman and film director. His career followed the most important milestones in Austrian film history, from the Austro-Hungarian era to Nazi propaganda films and into the post-war period. Throughout his life he acquired works by his father Gustav Klimt and thus perhaps compensated for the inadequate father-son relationship in his childhood. Gustav Ucicky probably acquired the works in his collection from the mid-1920s to the end of the 1950s. During his lifetime, works came to the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere as part of a comparison . Gustav Ucicky died in 1961 and bequeathed the remaining private art collection to his third wife Ursula. In 2001 and 2004, the works assigned to the Belvedere were classified as withdrawn within the meaning of the Art Restitution Act and restituted . In 2013, Ursula Ucicky, as a private person for Klimt's painting Water Snakes II, agreed a settlement with the heirs to Jenny Steiner, the first owner of the picture, in accordance with the Washington Principles of December 3, 1998. In the same year she founded the Klimt Foundation with the proceeds and brought the paintings and drawings that had remained in her possession to the private foundation.

Activities and organization

The aim of the foundation is to preserve and research the life and work of the artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and the movement of Art Nouveau / Classical Modernism that originated in Vienna around 1900 and was shaped by Klimt, and its significance for cultural development Austria to show today. The works of art brought into the 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 scientific analysis of the life and work of the film director Gustav Ucicky . The foundation generally functions as an independent and interdisciplinary platform for documenting the “Vienna 1900” era and acts as a lender and partner for research and exhibition projects.

On the occasion of its three-year existence, the Klimt Foundation, as the operator of the Gustav Klimt Center , commissioned the Upper Austrian author Clara Gallistl to produce the play “Sweet Viennese Darkness / Deep Bright Lake”. The title of the monologue places the still attractive, special emotion of the cultural-historical epoch "Vienna 1900" next to the unique experience of the Attersee lake landscape. Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge immortalized themselves on July 27 and August 10, 1900 in the guest book of the Villa Paulick in Seewalchen am Attersee and have since been welcome guests in the historic summer villa of the kuk master carpenter Friedrich Paulick . The world premiere of the staged reading with actress Maxi Blaha took place on September 3, 2016 in the unique, historical ambience in the Villa Paulick in Seewalchen am Attersee and will be performed again exclusively in the Villa Paulick in 2017. In the play, the aged Emilie Flöge, portrayed by actress Maxi Blaha, from Vienna in the 1930s casts a longing look back at the time of the famous summer retreat and Secessionism , while critically reflecting on heterosexual structures of desire, gendered working conditions and the political implications of her work.

Board

The board of directors includes chairman Peter Weinhäupl, managing director and deputy chairwoman of the board, Sandra Tretter, and business scientist Hubert Weinhäupl. The three board members were personally appointed by foundation founder Ursula Ucicky. Legal advisor is Andreas Nödl. A parliamentary question from the Greens in July 2014 was answered by the responsible federal minister.

The collection

The collection inventory of Gustav Klimt | When the foundation was established in September 2013, Vienna 1900 Private Foundation (Klimt Foundation) comprised four oil paintings and ten drawings by Gustav Klimt, a book written by Georg Klimt about the life of the Klimt family, and a bundle of correspondence between Gustav Klimt and Maria Ucicka, his mother by Gustav Ucicky . This inventory is scientifically documented and researched. The results were published in the first volume of the Klimt Research Edition of the Klimt Foundation. The foundation statutes also make it possible to accept works as gifts and to purchase them to expand the portfolio. The focus of the expansion is on Austrian art between 1890 and 1918. The Klimt Foundation's inventory currently comprises around 90 objects. The foundation is not for profit and is not commercially active in the art market.

research

The Klimt Foundation acts as an independent and interdisciplinary platform for documenting the “Vienna 1900” era and acts as a lender and partner for research and exhibition projects.

Research into and documentation of the works of art brought into the foundation are given priority. Against this background, the following projects are to be implemented in the coming years:

  • Documentation of the history of origin of the works of art brought into the foundation
  • Publication of the previously unknown correspondence between Gustav Klimt and Maria Ucicka (Edition Klimt-Research)
  • Publication of the book written by Georg Klimt about the life of the Klimt family (Edition Klimt-Research)
  • Publication on the entire original Klimt collection by Gustav Ucicky (Edition Klimt Research)
  • Timeline 1890–1918: Conception and implementation of an online database for the "Vienna 1900" network

Cooperations

There are research collaborations with the Filmarchiv Austria , the Gustav Klimt Memorial Association and the Gustav Klimt Center on Lake Attersee.

  • In accordance with the purpose of the foundation, work was carried out on the film work of Gustav Ucicky. Through an extensive research cooperation with the Filmarchiv Austria , the Klimt Foundation realized the first scientific and film-historical publication on Gustav Ucicky. In addition, all known and newly discovered film documents were restored, digitized and presented as part of a critical retrospective in autumn 2014 in the newly opened Metro-Kino (Kinokulturhaus). There was also a specialist symposium on the subject of “Between Propaganda and Entertainment. The director Gustav Ucicky ”took place.
  • After Gustav Klimt had to give up his studio in the back yard of a house in Josefstädter Straße in Vienna's 8th district in 1911, he used a picturesque garden house in the 13th district as a studio and from 1911 until his death in 1918, at the mediation of an artist colleague also lived there temporarily. The artist created around fifty paintings and hundreds of drawings in this refuge. His studio at Feldmühlgasse 11 became a private meeting place for numerous artist colleagues. a. Felix Albrecht Harta and Egon Schiele . The Gustav Klimt Memorial Association has been trying to preserve Gustav Klimt's last studio since the 1990s. In 2014 this citizens' initiative was awarded the European Union's Prize for Cultural Heritage - the Europa Nostra Award - for its commitment . As part of a research cooperation with the Klimt Foundation, the milestones of the Klimt Association and the associated history of Klimt's studio in Feldmühlgasse were documented in book form for the first time. The publication appeared in autumn 2014 as the first volume in the Edition Klimt series .
  • Gustav Klimt regularly spent his summers at the Attersee from 1900 to 1916. A themed trail has been honoring the famous Art Nouveau artist since 2003 and since 2012 you can find out more about Klimt's life and work in this region at the Gustav Klimt Center in Kammer-Schörfling am Attersee . The permanent documentation was designed and implemented by the Vienna Leopold Museum . In addition to numerous private lenders, the founder of the Klimt Foundation also made private loans available to the Klimt Center until 2013. From 2014 the Klimt Foundation will support the presentation in this special documentation center.

Publications

Starting in autumn 2014, the Klimt Foundation will be editing two of its own series of publications - Edition Klimt and Edition Klimt-Research - on internal research projects and external research collaborations in the field of Gustav Klimt, the “Vienna 1900” era and in the context of the founder Ursula Ucicky and the collector Gustav Ucicky .

The following main topics have already appeared in the Foundation's series of publications:

Edition Klimt

  • Volume 1: Gustav Klimt. Atelier Feldmühlgasse 1911–1918. Edited by Sandra Tretter, Peter Weinhäupl, Felizitas Schreier, Georg Becker. With contributions by Georg Becker, Heide Buschhausen, Helmut Buschhausen, Martina Leitner, Felizitas Schreier, Verena Traeger, Sandra Tretter, Peter Weinhäupl, Johannes Wieninger and greetings from Alessandra Comini , Plácido Domingo. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-85033-846-2 . (published: 09/2014)
  • Volume 2: Gustav Klimt. Summer retreat at the Attersee 1900–1916. Edited by Sandra Tretter, Peter Weinhäupl. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-85033-860-8 . (published: 08/2015)
  • Volume 3: Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge - reform of fashion, inspiration of art. Edited by Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl. With contributions by Martina Leitner, Sonja Niederacher, Uwe Schögl, Paul H. Simpson, Verena Traeger, Sandra Tretter and Angela Völker. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-7106-0070-8 . (published: 06/2016)

Edition Klimt Research

  • Volume 1: "Code: Longing - 25". Gustav Klimt's correspondence with Maria Ucicka 1899–1916. Edited by Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl. With contributions by Sandra Tretter, Armin Loacker, Martina Leitner. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-85033-859-2 . (published: 10/2014)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foundation headquarters , klimt-foundation.com
  2. ↑ a b organs of the foundation , klimt-foundation.com
  3. ^ Klimt Foundation founded with works from the Gustav Ucicky collection , press release, APA, OTS0104, 24 Sep. 2013.
  4. ↑ Klimt Foundation announces team of legal experts , press release, APA, OTS0164, Jan. 24, 2014
  5. ^ Answer from Josef Ostermayer
  6. ↑ Die Presse December 5, 2014 http://diepresse.com/home/zeitgeschichte/4613236/Gustav-Ucicky_Ein-Konner-von-Goebbels-Gnaden
  7. ↑ ORF November 19, 2014 http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2680136/
  8. ↑ Gustav Klimt Memorial (klimt.at)
  9. ↑ Gustav Klimt Center , on attersee.salzkammergut.at