GUSTAV KLIMT IN THE SIGN OF HOFFMANN AND THE SECESSION

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Correr Museum From 24 March to 8 July 2012 On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt, and a century after his acclaimed participation in the Venice Biennale (1910), the Viennese artist returns to the lagoon as the protagonist of an extraordinary exhibition, which will be held in the display rooms of the Correr Museum from the 24th March to the 8th July 2012. The exhibition is the result of a joint production of the Foundation of Civic Museums of Venice and the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, in collaboration with ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE and the Arthemisia Group. The curator is Alfreid Weidinger, one of the leading experts on the Austrian artist. Through a cycle of paintings, rare and valuable drawings, furniture, and elegant jewellery, as well as elaborate reconstructions and interesting historical documents, Gustav Klimt in the Sign of Hoffmann and the Secession, as the Venetian show is entitled, will present the genesis and evolution of Klimt’s work in the fields of architecture and painting, and of those who, with him, gave rise to the Viennese Secession, an instance of that European modernism whose key players included figures like Minne, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Koloman Moser, and above all the companion of many intellectual and design ventures, Josef Hoffmann. In the display rooms of the Correr, as well as the cycles mentioned above, the Judith I (1901) and Judith II (1909), which were acquired at the 1910 Biennale for the Ca’ Pesaro National Gallery of Modern Art, will be brought together again alongside some of the masterpieces from the Vienna Belvedere, the institution that owns the most extensive collection of Klimt’s paintings on canvas, as well as others from public and private collections, including the Lady by the Fireplace (1897/98) The Lovers (1901-1902), Portrait of Hermine Gallia (1904), and The Sunflower (1907). PB