Stoclet frieze

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The stoclet frieze

The Stoclet frieze is an approximately 2 meter high and 8 meter long wall frieze by Gustav Klimt installed in 1911 in the dining room of the Palais Stoclet in Brussels . The private palace is not open to the public; Klimt's eight-part design for the frieze in original size, completely restored over many years for Klimt's 150th birthday, has been preserved in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts .

In 1904 the architect Josef Hoffmann was commissioned to build a city palace in Brussels for the Belgian industrialist Adolphe Stoclet ; the Wiener Werkstätte was entrusted with the artistic design at the same time. The manager of the Fritz Wärndorfer workshop commissioned the painter and friend Hoffmanns, Gustav Klimt, to design a frieze in the dining room of the palace. The Vienna mosaic workshop Leopold Forstner had to implement Klimt's painted design together with specialists in metal and goldsmith work, ceramics and enamel .

Klimt should have started the design work in 1905 and created a paradisiacal scenario with gold tendrils, flowers, birds and people on paper that was laminated to canvas ( profile , see below). In 1908 he is said to have made significant changes to the design before implementation began in 1909.

The inlay work carried out in Vienna was installed in Brussels in 1911 in the presence of Klimt (Klimt had forbidden public presentation in Vienna, but had shown the work of his friend Berta Zuckerkandl ).

The frieze consists of two almost mirror-like parts and is located on the two long walls of the rectangular dining room. The mosaic and Hoffmann's room form a complete artistic unit in the sense of a total work of art . Hoffmann placed Klimt's pictures with great understanding of his friend's intentions, while Klimt, for his part, tried to fit into the architecture with great sensitivity . There are three themes in total, each mounted on a wall. Between the representations of expectation and fulfillment is the Golden Knight .

The work drawings for the Stoclet frieze consist of several parts, which are made of gold leaf and silver leaf on wrapping paper of different thicknesses and some have handwritten names. The drawings are now in the Art Nouveau Art Deco department of the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna .

gallery

Drafts for the wall frieze, 1905–1909

  • Knight

  • The expectation

  • The fulfillment

  • Tree of life

literature

  • ME Warlick: Mythic Rebirth in Gustav Klimt's Stoclet Frieze: New Considerations of Its Egyptianizing Form and Content. In: The Art Bulletin 74, 1992, pp. 115-134.
  • Nina Schedlmayer: SMS on paper , in: news magazine profil , Vienna, No. 12, March 19, 2011, p. 110 f.
  • Alfred Weidinger: The Stoclet house is really very beautiful . In: Gustav Klimt . Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3763-0 , pp. 118-137 and 289,.
  • Peter Noever (Ed.): Yearning for beauty - the Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House; [... published on the occasion of the exhibition "Yearning for Beauty. The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House", Center for Fine Arts Brussels, February 17 - May 28, 2006; The catalog is based on the publication "The Price of Beauty. 100 Years of the Wiener Werkstätte"] . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1410-3 .
  • Peter Noever (Ed.): MAK & Vienna (Museum Guide) . MAK Vienna and Prestel Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-7913-2836-2 .
  • Friedrich Kurrent, Alice Strobl: The Palais Stoclet in Brussels by Josef Hoffmann with the famous frieze by Gustav Klimt . Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-85349-162-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 9 Work drawing for the execution of a mosaic frieze for the dining room of the Palais Stoclet in Brussels mak.at
  2. ↑ Tobias G. Natter: Biography , in: Tobias G. Natter, Gerbert Frodl (Ed.): Klimt und die Frauen , Dumont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-5370-7 , p. 253.
  3. ↑ See Noever 2006, pp. 355-407.
  4. ↑ Noever (Museum Guide) 2002, pp. 71–75.