On Gustav Klimt’s 150th birthday, Vienna’s Belvedere marks 2012 as the Klimt Year
December 29, 2011 by All Art News
Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured
VIENNA.- Owning the largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt worldwide, the Belvedere is preparing a very special presentation for this anniversary year. The show Masterpieces in Focus: 150 Years of Gustav Klimt on the Upper Belvedere’s piano nobile will display all of the artist’s paintings preserved in the museum in an extraordinary fashion. Unlike most exhibitions of recent years, it will not deal with stylistic relationships or art historical contexts, but will concentrate on the individual works as such – on [...]