From 21 February to 7 September 2025, the Belvedere Museum in Vienna presents the exhibition “Gustav Klimt: Pigment & Pixel”
Supply: Belvedere · Picture: Gustav Klimt, “Water Serpents I” (element), 1904 (minor additions in 1907)
Gustav Klimt is Austria’s most well-known artist and his work is appreciated by thousands and thousands of individuals worldwide. But to at the present time his iconic photographs conceal many secrets and techniques.
How did Klimt work on his artwork? Which supplies did he use? How did he devise and compose explicit work? The exhibition permits guests a glimpse beneath the floor of Klimt’s colourful world. Fashionable imaging applied sciences resembling infrared reflectography and X-radiography permit new insights into Klimt’s working strategies. Every so often these have revealed shocking divergences between the preliminary drawing and the ultimate work.
The exhibition additionally explores how Klimt made his legendary gold work. Which strategies did he make use of to use gold to the canvas? It is going to embody a documentation of the methods and supplies Klimt used to create The Kiss. One other spotlight of the present is the results of a protracted collaboration between the Belvedere and Google Arts & Tradition that began in 2019: the hypothetical reconstruction of Klimt’s School Work in coloration. These monumental canvases depicting allegories of Philosophy, Drugs, and Jurisprudence have been commissioned for the ceiling of the Nice Corridor on the College of Vienna. Nonetheless, they met with a torrent of criticism and have been consequently by no means displayed at their meant location. Throughout World Struggle II they have been positioned in storage with different artwork treasures at Schloss Immendorf. The fort was set on fireplace within the final days of the warfare; Gustav Klimt’s School Work have been destroyed within the blaze. Immediately their look is thought solely from black-and-white pictures. With the assistance of synthetic intelligence it has been attainable to recreate the work in colours which are in all probability very near the unique impression. These reconstructions can be proven within the exhibition within the work’ unique dimensions.
