Vienna 1900. Klimt, Schiele and their Times
26.09.2010 - 16.01.2011
With the Wiener Werkstätte and Vienna Secession, fin-de-siècle Vienna was one of the cradles of modern art. Coffee house culture and the scandals surrounding the Secession were among the epoch-making phenomena of the period. At the centre of our comprehensive thematic exhibition on Viennese modernism (1890-1910) stand renowned ornamental paintings by Gustav Klimt and erotic figurative depictions by Egon Schiele and the young Oskar Kokoschka, supplemented by works by further artists, architects, furniture designers, and artisans of the Secession and Wiener Werkstätte. The close cooperation among these artists reflected a new, comprehensive definition of art, that of the Gesamtkunstwerk, which would subsequently be developed by the Bauhaus and De Stijl movement.