Gustav Klimt Rome exhibition Palazzo Braschi: info, tickets, curiosities
The exhibition of records. Of the great returns edand the rediscovered masterpieces. Really worth a visit Klimt. The Secession and Italy. An exhibition / event at the Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi, Via San Pantaleo 10, until March 27, 2022. Info and reservations: here. Curated by Franz Smola, curator of the Belvedere, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage and Sandra Tretter, deputy director of Klimt Foundation of Vienna.
Gustav Klimt, painter of precious golds, fabrics and mosaics
The adjective exceptional fits perfectly. No exaggeration. Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, July 14, 1862 – Vienna, February 6, 1918), the painter of gold and fabrics who made Vienna great at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, returns to Italy. With some of his masterpieces arrived from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna and the Klimt Foundation. But not only…
In the rooms of Palazzo Braschi there is him, the artist who made the Secession and revolutionized art, painting. The life style, as we call it today, we can say that it was born with him and his colleagues. Through the works on display we retrace his life, his passions, his loves. And I his travels in Italy that the organizers emphasize as the unpublished focus of the exhibition.
The travels in Italy, for the first time on display
It is the first time that the link between the artist and our country has been developed so much. Both from the point of view of reciprocal artistic influences and of his exhibition successes. On display are works by Galileo Chini, Giovanni Prini, Enrico Lionne, Camillo Innocenti. Arturo Noci, Ercole Drei, Vittorio Zecchin and Felice Casorati. Watch them alternate with the works of the Austrian and you will understand how Beauty and Art always “contaminate” each other …
This 2021 is also an important anniversary. 110 years ago, Gustav Klimt was in fact awarded at the International Art Exhibition in Rome. Where does he return now …
Among the many treasures on display until March 27, 2022, it is worth pausing a little more in front of Portrait of a Lady. Stolen from the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery in Piacenza in 1997, it was recovered in 2019. Exceptional, in fact … And then the sketches and naturalistic studies of the woods, the works created in the context of the Künstler-Compagnie and the wonderful portraits of women. … Friends I (Sisters), of 1907, and The bride (1917-1918). This is the last of the great works of the artist. Left unfinished following the aftermath of the stroke that had hit him. And that he will kill him, at 56 years old …
Klimt. The Secession and Italy: over 200 works at Palazzo Braschi in Rome
There are over 200 objects / masterpieces on display. Signed by Klimt, but also by the artists of his circle. His Viennese disciples… Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll, Johann Victor Krämer, Josef Maria Auchentaller, Wilhelm List, Franz von Matsch and many others.
Room after room, we see paintings, drawings, vintage posters. But also sculptures and objects that today we would precisely define of lifestyle. Or design… In addition to since Belvedere Museum in Vienna and from Klimt Foundation, come from public and private collections such as the Neue Galerie Graz.
Femme fatali and ladies in white
from the famous femme fatali by Klimt, between biblical subjects and bourgeois portraits (the ladies of the new and rich Jewish-Viennese society), there are Judith I (1901) and lady in white (1917-18). The revolutionary Friends I (The Sisters, 1907) and the portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (1917-18). As far as The bride, the large unfinished canvas begun in 1917, in the last months of the artist’s activity. The painting, originally owned by the his partner, the artist and stylist Emilie Flöge, came out of Austria for the last time in the 1930s. It was then exhibited in Bern and Paris. Now, 90 years later, it is the turn of Rome.
Of the travel to Italy, there are the autograph postcards sent from Trieste, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Ravenna. It was here that the painter fell in love with Byzantine mosaics and “made them his own”. Starting to dress his “ladies” of golden cloaks and very precious mosaic “pieces”. The glimpses of Rome and Lake Garda, on the other hand, enter its landscapes …
Miracles, unpublished works and rediscovered masterpieces
Enjoy the pleasure (also technological) of contemplating the “Miracle” of the Faculty cadres. Medicine, Law and Philosophy. A miracle precisely, because these three allegories were “dead” and rose again. Made by Klimt between 1899 and 1907 for the ceiling of the Aula Magna of the University of Vienna, they were rejected because they were considered scandalous. What remained of them was then destroyed in 1945, during a fire at the castle of Immendorf in Austria.
There were only a few photographs printed in the newspapers. Then, now, the miracle of Google Arts & Culture, the new platform dedicated to the deepening of the arts. Which was able to digitally reconstruct the color panels. He did it through Machine Learning (a subset of Artificial Intelligence) and with the advice of Dr. Francesco Smola. Curator of the exhibition and one of the leading Klimt experts in the world.
Klimt. The Secession and Italy it is structured in 14 sections. From the first which tells the (re) birth of modern Vienna, in the second half of the nineteenth century, to the last, dedicated to The bride.
The mystery of the portrait of a lady
Speech in itself deserves the focus on Portrait of a Lady. It is the work above. A truly rediscovered masterpiece. It belongs to the last phase of the artist’s life. It is a less valuable painting. Made of almost impressionist brushstrokes. But also expressionist.
The beautiful story is that of the portrait, but also of Claudia Maga, a high school student from Piacenza. In 1996 she was the one who guessed the genesis of the painting. His thesis is confirmed. Klimt painted his Portrait of a Lady on another work. The pose is the same and so is the face. They change clothing and hairstyle. In 1997 the painting was stolen from the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery in Piacenza. Come? It was never understood. The portrait disappears for 23 years. On 10 December 2019, gardening work around the museum unearthed a plastic bag. Inside the Portrait of a Lady by Gustav Klimt. The rediscovered masterpiece …
Klimt. The Secession and Italy is an exhibition promoted by Roma Culture, the Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage. Co-produced by Arthemisia which also takes care of its organization with Zètema Progetto Cultura, in collaboration with the Belvedere Museum and in cooperation with Klimt Foundation. Curated by Franz Smola, curator of the Belvedere, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage and Sandra Tretter, deputy director of Klimt Foundation of Vienna. The main sponsor of the exhibition is Acea, special partner Julius Meinl and Ricola, partner Catellani & Smith, radio partner Dimensione Suono Soft and is recommended by Sky Arte.
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