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Schubert at the Piano. Design for the music room by Nikolaus
Dumba, 1896

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas
30×39 cm

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

    (Baumgarten near Vienna/Vienna 1862–1918 Vienna)

Currently on display at OG4
In 1893 Baron Nikolaus Dumba (1830–1900), an avid singer and vice president of the Wiener Musikverein, had commissioned Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) to create two overdoor paintings – Schubert at the Piano and Music – for the music room of his palace. Klimt presented this painted study in 1896. The final version of the painting executed in 1899, which was destroyed together with Klimt’s Faculty Paintings in a fire at Schloss Immendorf in 1945, showed a slightly different composition. This oil painting is a key work in Klimt’s oeuvre because it represents a link between his realist phase and the period when he began to adopt a more Impressionist style of painting.

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Artist/author
  • Gustav Klimt
Title
Schubert at the Piano. Design for the music room by Nikolaus
Dumba
Date
1896
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism, Impressionism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30×39 cm
Signature
Signed lower right (scratched): GUSTAV KLIMT
Credit line of the permanent loan
Private collection
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
  • Gustav Klimt. Jahrhundertkünstler, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger/Sandra Tretter, Wien 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 22.06.2018–04.11.2018).
  • Tobias Natter: Gustav Klimt. Sämtliche Gemälde, Köln 2012.
  • Alfred Weidinger u.a.: Gustav Klimt kommentiertes Gesamtverzeichnis des malerischen Werkes, München u.a. 2007.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Natter 2012: 83
Keywords
man/boywoman/girlpianofortemaking music (musician with instrument)musiciancomposerlistening to musicevening dress

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