A Golden Kiss for Klimt

"A local celebrity during his lifetime, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt has become an international sensation in ours. His gilded 1907-08 painting "The Kiss" has turned into one of Vienna's leading tourist attractions, and his portraits, some of which sell for tens of millions of euros, are among the most highly valued paintings in the history of art.


This year, Vienna celebrates the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth with 10 special exhibitions, many highlighting relatively unknown aspects of the artist's life and work."


Read the full article, "A Golden Kiss for Klimt," at the Wall Street Journal here

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

"At the Neue Galerie on the Upper East Side, a pair of serene eyes gaze out from Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece, "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer." They betray little of the tumult behind the painting's byzantine history."


Read the full article, "One Painting's Journey Home," at the Wall Street Journal here

See the Klimt Collection's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer here

Wax Klimt figure on display at Madam Tussauds in Vienna

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Happy New Year!

In the annual New Years Day concert “live from Vienna”, one of the main features during the ballet sequences was a transformation from GUSTAV KLIMT’S most famous painting THE KISS into a ballet segment right from the BELVEDERE museum which has an entire room devoted to Austria’s famous son GUSTAV KLIMT who’s 150 birthday this year, will be celebrated in Vienna his birthplace.

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Stolen Klimt Landscape Fetches $40.4 Million At Sotheby's New York Sale

Via Bloomberg.com -

11/02/2011

"A Gustav Klimt landscape stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner and recently returned to the woman's grandson sold for $40.4 million at Sotheby's today.

The top lot in the auction house's Impressionist and modern art evening sale, it went to a Zurich dealer named David Lachenmann after protracted bidding that boiled down to him and someone on the phone."

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Neue Galerie Event

Reading and Book Signing

Thursday, November 17 | 5 to 6 p.m.

Historian Tim Bonyhady an award-winning art historian, curator, and lawyer. His book, Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900, tells the story of his family's experiences in Vienna in the early twentieth century. Bonyhady will read from his book and autograph copies for members.

Not since the publication of Carl Schorske’s Fin-De-Siècle Vienna has a book so brilliantly given us a close-up portrait of turn-of-the-century Vienna, as seen through the lives of an eminent family, the Gallias, among the city’s great patrons of the early twentieth century: their upper-class life; their rarefied collections of art and design; their religious life; and their daring flight from the Nazi Anschluss. Tim Bonyhady, great-grandson of the Gallias, tells the story of the family’s middle-class prosperity from the provinces of Central Europe where they grew up to their arrival in Vienna, following the emperor’s proclamation that Jews had freedom of movement and residence, and shows how for the next two decades, the Vienna that became theirs was at the center of art, music, and ideas in all of Europe.

About the author:

Tim Bonyhady is an award-winning art historian, curator, and environmental lawyer. He is the director of the Centre of Climate Law and Policy at the Australian National University. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

Advance praise for GOOD LIVING STREET:

“Bonyhady has delved deeply into his forebears’ concert books, travel logs, letters, and death certificates in an effort to reconstruct his family’s identity and, for his mother, to place ‘a value on her life that she did not.’ The result is a lucid, poignant generational tale of loss of material wealth and cultural identity that provides new perspective and insight into both Holocaust and immigration studies.” —Booklist

Political, economic and art history effectively combine with memoir to create a compelling story. —Kirkus Reviews

For more information about this event, please visit the Neue Galerie website here

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Klimt in the News

Klimt-Inspired Barbie Doll
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A Gustav Klimt landscape stolen by the Nazis and recently restituted to the heirs of its Austrian owner is expected to sell for more than $25 million at auction this Autumn, Sotheby’s reported. Klimt’s “Litzberg on the Attersee” is being sold by Georges Jorisch, a great-nephew of Austrian iron magnate Viktor Zuckerkandl.
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"Three rooms into the National Gallery of Victoria's Vienna: Art & Design exhibition, past its densely detailed drawings and paintings, its elegant furniture and blueprints for a radical fin de siecle city, there is a set of small, black and white photographs and, nearby, a display of flat, buckle-sized jewels..."

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Here's wishing a happy summer to all from The Klimt Collection!

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