Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, oil, silver, gold on canvas, Neue Galerie, NY, PD
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Art History Series
Whether you are new to our Art History webinar programs or want to continue learning with us, join us for this brand-new original series....
The Last Waltz
This series covers the golden era when the epicenter of art,
culture, style and architecture of Europe blossomed in
Austria in the early twentieth century.
Above: (L-R): Egon Schiele, Max Oppenheimer, 1910, black chalk, India ink and watercolor on paper, PD; Otto Lendecke, Fashion Print, Wiener Werkstätte Postkarte # 853, 1912, Metropolitan Museum of Art, PD; Below: Wiener Werkstätte, Gustav Kalhammer, National Railway Station Restaurant, Vienna, Color Lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, PD 
What was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and what was Vienna like in its golden age, the era we associate with Klimt and his most famous subject? We will examine life under the long-reign of its most colorful Emperor Franz, the patron of Johann Strauss and an astonishing efflorescence of art that included the Viennese art-nouveau (Jugendstil,) and its astonishing impact on architecture, painting and sculpture, and the parallel development of Expressionism in art.

There was a brief moment when Vienna was the center of a glittering world of accomplishment and beauty. This is an opportunity to take a close look at its most prominent artists, their patrons, its intellectual café culture, the fashions and taste of the period, and an amazing array of personalities, avant-garde and otherwise, who exerted a crucial impact on the arts: their memory, and influence, persists to this very day.

It will also be the story, integral to a full narrative, of how cruelly this glory met its end, but also to portray the tenacious efforts at art restitution exemplified by the heroic achievement (against all apparent odds) of recovering the Woman in Gold to its rightful ownership, and a gradual illumination (despite shameless cover-ups) of the full scope of what had occurred throughout Austria.
SESSION 1
Vienna Secession: Avant garde art and architecture in the age of Emperor Franz and Johannn Strauss

SESSION 2
Gustav Klimt and his Patrons:
The Woman in Gold

SESSION 3
Wiener Werkstatte: Jugendstil, Art Nouveau
and Art Deco in Vienna

SESSION 4
Schiele and His Circle:
Was he the baddest of art’s bad boys?

SESSION 5
Kokoschka and his tumultuous times: the empire ends; the glorious 20s; the 30s avant-garde go into exile, the end of freedom in Austria, aftermath, and restitution.

Above: Gustav Klimt, Judith II (Salome), 1909, oil on canvas, PD; Below: Alfred Roller, XIV Poster: 14th Secession Exhibition, Vienna 1902, CCA
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