Klimt Exhibition

• Official Klimt Exhibition Vienna and Japan 1900 []](https://klimt2019.jp/)

• I went to 2019-05-09.

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  • Interesting gap between the kinky, sensual women’s drawings.

• Vienna

  • Klimt (German film festival) 1862 - 1918

• [Austro-Hungarian Empire https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3% 82%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E5%B8%9D%E5%9B%BD] (1867 - 1918)

  • Austrian Revolution - Wikipedia (1918)
  • Vienna at the turn of the century - Wikipedia

• 1873 [World’s Fair in Vienna - Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E4%B8%87%E5%9B%BD%E5%8D%9A%E8%A6%A7%E4% BC%9A]

  • Japanese culture was introduced and became a major boom Japonisme - Wikipedia.

• 1891 Klimt creates a frame in the style of a gold folding screen

  • Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art collections and ukiyoe and shunga sketches exist.

  • Knopf. (1858 - 1921) influenced by

  • In March 1898, Knopf exhibited 21 works at the first Secession exhibition by the Vienna Secession to great acclaim. It is said that Knopf’s work influenced Gustav Klimt at this time.

    • [Fernand Khnopff - Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8E%E3%83 %83%E3%83%97%E3%83%95]

  • I saw Knopf’s work when he was around 40 and Klimt, who was about 35, said, “Yeah, right.

  • Portrait of Helene Klimt,” which she wrote during this period, was painted by her six-year-old niece

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• The girls are cute,” “The folding screen is cool,” “Knopf, it’s so erotic,” and then they are combined!

• 1899 [Nuda Veritas.

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  • In your hand is a mirror that reflects the truth.
  • The top of the head quotes a piece of Schiller’s poetry, which is pretty cool. - Pleasing the masses is evil.

• 1901 Judith I.

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  • In the lower right corner of the screen is the man’s head.
  • Derived from the Book of Judith, an exegetical book of the Old Testament
    • Judith - Wikipedia

• This is the background of the aggressive nature of the works in this area: the

  • The kunstlerhaus, an artists’ organization, held the exhibition space in Vienna at the end of the century. The art world in Vienna was conservative, with little influence from Impressionism.(omission) In 1897, young artists dissatisfied with the conservatism of the Kunstlerhaus formed the Society for Plastic Arts, led by Klimt. When the Kunstlerhaus did not approve of this, Klimt and others left the Kunstlerhaus.

  • Vienna Secession - Wikipedia
  • “DER ZEIT IHRE KUNST,DER KUNST IHRE FREIHEIT”
    • “Let the times have their time, let the arts have their freedom.”

• Beethoven Frieze - Symphony No. 9 by [Beethoven - In Japan, it’s a year-end tradition.

  • The fourth movement is chorus.
    • The lyrics are from Schiller’s poem “be overjoyed”.
    • Beethoven saw the poem and composed the music
  • First performed in Vienna, 1824.

• Beethoven Frieze is a U-shaped mural with a painting to this tune.

  • This scene corresponds to the chorus of the fourth movement
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• After that.

  • A model has a baby, names it Gustav, another model has a baby, names it Gustav too.
  • Lots of kids but single for life
  • Landscape painting with a telescope looking at houses across the lake.
  • Emilie Louise Flöge - Wikipedia dies calling the name of

digression

• I visited the Klimt exhibition, and I was deeply moved by the “Tokyo Circuit Line Diagram” in the museum store, a shocking work that expresses a complex map of Tokyo’s train lines using a PCB base and LED lights that are powered by radio waves from an iPhone (not related to Klimt).
  • Tokyo Circuit Diagram Series | PCB ART moeco

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