From 15 Could to five October 2025, the Belvedere Museum presents an exhibition specializing in one in every of Gustav Klimt’s final two works.
Supply: Belvedere · Picture: Gustav Klimt: “The Bride” (1917-18), Klimt Basis, on mortgage on the Belvedere
In 1917, the final yr of his profession, Gustav Klimt began engaged on one in every of his largest work, the allegorical work The Bride. His surprising and untimely loss of life in February 1918 prevented him from ending this portray. A now iconic picture by Klimt’s favourite photographer Moriz Nähr exhibits The Bride along with Woman with Fan—itself the topic of an exhibition on the Higher Belvedere in 2021/22—within the painter’s studio in Vienna’s Hietzing district.
Klimt’s final studio units the scene for this exhibition with a highlight on the encounters that happened there between the artist and essential individuals in his life. Sources embody stories by his fellow painters Egon Schiele and Felix Albrecht Harta, the writings of Arthur Schnitzler and the Japanese artwork connoisseur Kijiro Ohta, along with accounts from Friederike Beer-Monti, who was portrayed by Klimt, and his patrons Eugenia (Mäda) Primavesi and Serena Lederer.
