The Viennese Secession by Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl

Author:Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl [Charles, Victoria & Carl, Klaus H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783103942
Publisher: Parkstone International
Published: 2014-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Josef von Divéky, Poster design for the

Cabaret Fledermaus, 1907.

Collection and Archive,

Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna.

Carl Otto Czeschka,

First Cabaret Fledermaus program (title-page), 1907.

Leopold Museum, Vienna.

Josef Hoffmann,

Cabaret Fledermaus (bar), 1907.

Photograph by Bertold Löffler, 1908.

Collection and Archive, Universität für

angewandte Kunst, Vienna.

Josef Hoffmann,

Design for Vienna’s Cabaret Fledermaus, 1907.

The Beethoven Frieze

Klimt’s painting cycle Beethoven Frieze (pp. 116, 118) was, together with Klinger’s sculpture, a grand homage to the composer who lived and worked in Vienna until his death on 26 March 1827. He had been one of the most celebrated pianists and composers of his time. During the exhibition, the frieze was spread over three different walls and arranged sequentially in the left wing of the Secession-house. The individual paintings are categorised according to their order on the walls. First come Floating Genii, Suffering Humanity, and Knight in Shining Armour. The second wall showed Hostile Forces, The Gorgons, and the giant Typhoeus. The third wall showed Poetry, The Arts, and Choir of Angels.

The Beethoven Frieze was intended as a backdrop for Max Klinger’s coloured, three-metre high sculpture. Since most of the ceiling frescoes in the University of Vienna were destroyed, the frieze is the most important survivor. The huge and fragile – it was painted on plaster – painting survived miraculously, although it was initially not meant to be a permanent installation. This is a small comfort for the other art losses that the world of art suffered as a consequence of World War II.

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