Austria — Klimt’s 150th Birthday in 2012

Austria and the world are cel­e­brat­ing the 150^th birth­day of Gustav Klimt in 2012. Vienna will be the focus of spe­cial art exhi­bi­tions of the artists’ works through­out the year at the Belvedere Palace, Museum of Fine Arts, Wien Museum, Albertina, Leopold Museum, Austrian Theatre Museum, Klimt vil­la and more.Gustav Klimt was the speak­er and orga­niz­er of the Jugendstil art move­ment also known as Art Nouveau. He cre­at­ed some of the most famous Art nou­veau paint­ings world­wide. His most famous paint­ing, “The Kiss” between 1907 & 1908 marked the peak of his “gold­en phase”, a new cre­ative peri­od char­ac­ter­ized by the dom­i­nance of orna­men­ta­tion and the increased use of gold leaf. Klimt nev­er paint­ed self-por­traits; he pre­ferred to paint peo­ple — “espe­cial­ly women” in most­ly erot­ic forms.

2012 will be an excep­tion­al­ly good year to vis­it Austria and Vienna in par­tic­u­lar whether it is you’re your first time or return­ing to enjoy the largest col­lec­tion of Gustav Klimt’s work ever put together!