KLIMT. THE SECESSION AND ITALY
Palazzo Braschi, Roma October 27, 2021 – March 27, 2022 (check the opening on the site)
Gustav Klimt returns to Italy, 110 years after he took part in the 1911 International Art Exhibition.This exhibition marks the return to Italy of some of his masterpieces from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Klimt Foundation and public and private collections such as the Neue Galerie Graz.
The exhibition traces Klimt’s life and artistic production, underlining his role as co-founder of the Viennese artistic and cultural revolution and exploring the relationship between Klimt and Italy, the destination of his travels and the site of some of his exhibition successes.
It includes iconic works such as the famous Judith I, Lady in White, Friends I (The Sisters) and Amalie Zuckerkandl, as well as exceptional loans such as The Bride from the Klimt Foundation and Portrait of a Lady, stolen from the Galleria Ricci Oddi in Piacenza in 1997 and fortunately recovered in 2019.
The paintings and sculptures of the Belvedere Museum, signed by other artists, such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll, Johann Victor Krämer, Josef Maria Auchentaller frame these great works by the Austrian master and contribute to the story of the Viennese Secession period. , Wilhelm List, Franz von Matsch and many others. Autographed postcards document the travels to Italy of Klimt, who visited Trieste, Venice, Florence, Pisa, Ravenna - where he became passionate about Byzantine mosaics - Rome and Lake Garda, which inspired some of his landscapes. These trips were important for the evolution of his creative research and increased his influence on Italian artists. For this reason, at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi, Klimt’s works will be compared with those of Italian artists such as Galileo Chini, Giovanni Prini, Enrico Lionne, Camillo Innocenti, Arturo Noci, Ercole Drei, Vittorio Zecchin and Felice Casorati who will give life with different sensitivities and declinations to the exhibitions of Ca ‘Pesaro and the Roman Secession. ▲