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Gustav Klimt, 8th July 1909
Gustav Klimt
8th July 1909
Photograph mounted on cardboard
31.8×24.2 cm
Artists
- Moriz Nähr
(Vienna 1859–1945 Vienna)
Unfortunately not on display at the moment
The interaction between the medium of photography and the visual arts, which was prevalent in Viennese Modernism around 1900, also shaped the two-decade-long collaboration between Moriz Nähr (1859–1945) and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), who had met during the foundation of the Vienna Secession. The numerous portraits of Klimt taken by Nähr are testament to their artistic affinity. The first portrait series, which includes this photograph of Gustav Klimt as well as two further prints – Gustav Klimt in Profile and Portrait of Gustav Klimt, Half-Left –, was created in the inner courtyards of the exhibition known as International Kunstschau in Vienna. Klimt commented in a correspondence card he sent to Emilie Flöge on 8th July 1909: “[…] was photographed this morning by Nähr – at the Kunstschau – I am curious!”
Object data
- Artist/author
- Moriz Nähr
- Title
- Gustav Klimt
- Date
- 8th July 1909
- Art movement
- Art Nouveau, Secession
- Category
- Photograph
- Material/technique
- Photograph mounted on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 31.8×24.2 cm
- Signature
- Signed and dated on the right: G 21
- Credit line of the permanent loan
- ARGE Collection Gustav Klimt
- Selection of Reference works
- Uwe Schögl/Sandra Tretter u.a.: Moriz Nähr (1859–1945). Fotograf für Habsburg, Klimt und Wittgenstein. Catalogue Raisonné, Wien 2021.
- Moriz Nähr. Fotograf der Wiener Moderne, hrsg. von Uwe Schögl/Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 24.08.2018-29.10.2018).
- Klimt-Foundation Wien, Moriz Nähr (1859–1945) Fotograf für Habsburg, Klimt und Wittgenstein. Catalogue Raisonné, www.moriz-naehr.com.
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