Vienna art show 1908

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The 1908 art show was an art and handicraft exhibition held by the group around Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann from June 1 to November 16, 1908 on the grounds of today's Wiener Konzerthaus . The art show was one of the multitude of events and festivities on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It is considered a groundbreaking event in Viennese modernism.

The exhibition committee around Gustav Klimt was under great time pressure, but developed a consistent program and organized the empty site of the concert hall as an exhibition area in the center of Vienna. Koloman Moser , Alfred Roller and Carl Otto Czeschka helped design the rooms . Works by around 130 artists were exhibited, including The Kiss from Klimt; This painting was bought by the then Imperial and Royal Ministry for Cult and Education under Minister Gustav Marchet and is now a showpiece in the Vienna Belvedere .

Works by members of the Klimt Group (Josef Hoffmann, Carl Moll , Wilhelm List , Adolf Hölzel and others) and by young talents such as Oskar Kokoschka , Elena Luksch-Makowsky , Max Oppenheimer and Heinrich Schröder were also exhibited . The space of the Wiener Werkstätte and the so-called "poster room" were reconstructed for a memorial exhibition in 2008.

Young artists who exhibited were: Magda Mautner von Markhof, Marianne Adler, Olga Ambros, Helene Bernatzik, Maria Vera Brunner, Marianne Deutsch, Luise Horovitz, Ella Irányi, Mizi Friedmann, Johanna Kaserer, Frieda Löw, Marianne Perlmutter, Minka Podhajska, Maria Pranke, Margarete von Remiz, Selma Singer , Elsa Seuffert, Marianne Steinberger , Paula Westhauser, Marianne Wieser, Elisabeth von Wolter, Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka , Marianne Zels and Eva Zetter.

cartoon

Zygmunt Skwirczyński : From the art show , in The Musket , July 2, 1908

literature

  • Agnes Husslein-Arco, Alfred Weidinger (ed.): Gustav Klimt and the art show 1908. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-4225-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Athina Chadzis: The painter and sculptor Elena Luksch-Makowsky (1878–1967), biography and work description (PDF; 57.0 MB) . Dissertation University of Hamburg 2000, p. 358

Web links

Commons : Kunstschau Wien 1908  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files