The Belvedere owns the world´s largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt. In autumn 2011, it will present this world-famous artist together with the congenial architect and designer Josef Hoffmann. Their intense collaboration, such in the Beethoven Exhibition at the Vienna Secession (1902) and the Stoclet Palace in Brussels (1905-12), set new standards in Europe when it comes to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Numerous works, such as Klimt´s Portrait of Fritza Riedler, which clearly reflects Hoffmann´s characteristic hand, attest to the two pioneers´ mutual influence, which in this comprehensive exhibition is also explored with regard to their involvement in the Wiener Werkstätte.

El arte ha jugado siempre un papel esencial en la sociedad. Mostrar sus objetos y apuestas; conocer los artistas que contribuyen a modificar la aprehensión y la comprensión del mundo imaginando cambiar-lo a través de sus formas, estos serán los ejes de esta reflexión que proponemos, abierta a todos los públicos.
· El artificio y la naturaleza
· Realismo científico
· Acción idealista
· Pasiones primitivas
· Los volúmenes del mundo
· Movimiento moderno
· Abstracciones
· La Gran Guerra

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El ciclo Mirades a l´Art Modern os propone disfrutar de las explicaciones de ocho especialistas a partir de una selección de las obras más destacadas de esta colección, realizando una panorámica del arte de los siglos XIX i XX en Catalunya.
Frente a la obra de arte, cada uno de los ponentes, entre los que destacan los conservadores del Museo, nos ofrecerá su particular "mirada" de la obra escogida y de su autor. Una ocasión única para conocer más a fondo las obras de la mano de los mejores expertos.

Destacadas obras de artistas como Picasso, Juli González, Marià Fortuny, Ramon Casas, Gaspar Homar, Anglada-Camarasa, Agustí Centelles, Enric Casanovas y Joan Ferrer Miró son el eje principal del ciclo y el punto de partida para profundizar en diversos episodios del arte catalán y en de diversos géneros artísticos.

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Curated by Dr. Otmar Rychlik

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Gustav Klimt on July 14, 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum will showcase its important wall paintings designed and executed by the celebrated painter and draughtsman.

In 1890, a year before the formal opening of the newly- erected Court Museum housing the Imperial art collections, Gustav Klimt, his younger brother, Ernst, and a friend and colleague, Franz Matsch, were commissioned to execute the series of paintings depicting important periods of European art, among them Ancient Egyptian as well as Ancient Greek and Roman art. This magnificent series is still displayed between the columns and above the arcades in the Main Staircase, about 12 m above the Entrance Hall.

A specially-built bridge spanning the width of the Main Staircase will offer visitors a close-up view of Klimt´s paintings on the north wall.

In addition, a temporary show in the Special Exhibition Gallery will present the evolution of the series, a seminal work in Klimt´s oeuvre around 1900. It will focus on Gustav Klimt´s "Ringstrassenperiode". Paintings and graphic works from the holdings of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, augmented by loans from public collections in Switzerland and Germany as well as from private collectors, will showcase Klimt´s oeuvre from his paintings for the Burgtheater to those commissioned for the Kunsthistorisches Museum to Klimt´s "golden period".