The Arts, Choir of Angels, and Embracing Couple
Floating Genii, Knight in Shining Armor
The Hostile Forces
Floating Genii, PoetryGustav Klimt's monumental installation, “The Beethoven Frieze,” measuring more than 100 feet in length and celebrating the unification of all the arts, will be reconstructed at the Tate Liverpool museum in what is billed as Britain’s first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the artist, Reuters reported. The show, scheduled for May 30 to Aug. 31 as part of Liverpool’s designation as a European Capital of Culture for 2008, will examine the role of Klimt (1862-1918) in the Secession movement, which inspired artists, architects, fashion designers and furniture makers. Klimt created “The Beethoven Frieze,” detail above, for the Secession’s 14th exhibition, in 1902. Though it was to be destroyed after the show, a patron of the movement ordered it removed and stored, and the Austrian state eventually acquired and restored it for exhibition in the Secession building in Vienna.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New York Times article courtesy of nytimes.com, article here
Pictures courtesy of www.secession.at
Details on "The Beethoven Frieze" here
Posts
