Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life

摘要

In the Summer of 2008, an unusual and highly original Klimt exhibition took place at Tate Liverpool, co-curated by Tobias G. Natter, formerly curator at Vienna's Belvedere Museum, and Christoph Gruneberg, the director of Tate Liverpool. The fact that the exhibition was not, in fact, in a strict sense devoted to Klimt may have disappointed some who were drawn in by the name Klimt, one of the most marketable in twentieth-century art. But what the exhibition did was much more interesting and art historically useful than yet another Klimt retrospective could have been. By dedicating as much space to the Secessionist and Wiener Werkstatte design connected to Klimt as to the artist's own painting and drawing and by highlighting the role of an important group of patrons, the exhibition presented a richly contextual-ized image of an artist too often isolated either by ha-giography or critique.