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Austria National Tourist Office and Vienna Tourist Board hosted an intimate group of industry partners last night to celebrate next year’s anniversary of Gustav Klint’s 150th birthday, if he was still alive. VTB managing director Norbert Kettner said 2012 Vienna celebrates Klimt in 2012 will see many museums and galleries in the city put on show art pieces normally locked away in vaults produced by the pioneer of Viennese Modernism during the year long celebration. Klimt’s work captures the artisitic and scientific discoveries and developments that shaped the Vienna Succession period. Special Klimt exhibitions will be shown at Vienna’s Belvedere from 25 Oct 11 to 04 Mar; at the Kunsthistorisches Museum from 14 Feb to 06 May; at Leopold Museum from 24 Feb to 11 Jun; Albertina from 13 Mar to 17 Jun; Wien Museum from 16 May to 16 Sep, and others – klimt2012.info. Kettner was in Australia for the official launch of the Vienna: Art & Design. Klimt. Schiele. Hoffmann. Loos exhibition which launched last week at the National Gallery of Vict. in Melbourne last week. Kettner is pictured above with ANTO Director Australia/NZ, Astrid Mulholland-Licht. |
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