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The National Gallery of Victoria has this month kicked off an exhibition of Viennesse art in Melbourne as part of its Winter Masterpieces program. The exhibit features a collection of several hundred prints, designs and many masterpices by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos. Many of the pieces have made their way to Melbourne from across the world, and have never before been seen in the country. The Vienna: Art & Design show features one of Klimt’s most mesmerising portraits, his muse of Emilie Flöge, which is the same piece being used to promote the exhibit in other major cities. “The exhibition traces the development of Vienna’s golden period from the late 1890s to about 1918 in art, design and architecture,” says Austrian National Tourist Office (ANTO) director for Australia/New Zealand, Astrid Mulholland-Licht. An exclusive dinner and private viewing for ANTO and Vienna Tourist Board partners launched the collection earlier this month, which also signalled the start of a series of trade and public events organised by ANTO. The four month long exhibition was described by Vienna Tourist Board ceo Norbett Kettner as a “once in a generation showcase.” Pictured with the guest curators of the exhibition are NGV director Gerard Vaughan (far left), Astrid Mulholland-Licht (right of Klimt’s Emilie Flöge); Heidi Victoria, Parlimentary Secretary to the Victorian Premier; and Norbert Kettner (second from right). |
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