From 21 February to 7 September 2025, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna presents the exhibition “Gustav Klimt: Pigment & Pixel”
Supply: Belvedere · Picture: Gustav Klimt, “Water Serpents I” (element), 1904 (minor additions in 1907)
Gustav Klimt is Austria’s most well-known artist and his work is appreciated by thousands and thousands of individuals worldwide. But to today his iconic photos conceal many secrets and techniques.
How did Klimt work on his artwork? Which supplies did he use? How did he devise and compose explicit work? The exhibition permits guests a glimpse beneath the floor of Klimt’s colourful world. Trendy imaging applied sciences reminiscent of infrared reflectography and X-radiography enable new insights into Klimt’s working strategies. Once in a while these have revealed stunning divergences between the preliminary drawing and the ultimate work.
The exhibition additionally explores how Klimt made his legendary gold work. Which strategies did he make use of to use gold to the canvas? It’ll embody a documentation of the strategies and supplies Klimt used to create The Kiss. One other spotlight of the present is the results of a protracted collaboration between the Belvedere and Google Arts & Tradition that began in 2019: the hypothetical reconstruction of Klimt’s College Work in coloration. These monumental canvases depicting allegories of Philosophy, Medication, and Jurisprudence had been commissioned for the ceiling of the Nice Corridor on the College of Vienna. Nonetheless, they met with a torrent of criticism and had been consequently by no means displayed at their meant location. Throughout World Struggle II they had been positioned in storage with different artwork treasures at Schloss Immendorf. The citadel was set on hearth within the final days of the warfare; Gustav Klimt’s College Work had been destroyed within the blaze. Right now their look is understood solely from black-and-white images. With the assistance of synthetic intelligence it has been attainable to recreate the work in colours which might be most likely very near the unique impression. These reconstructions might be proven within the exhibition within the work’ authentic dimensions.
