Vienna 1900. The Dreaming Artists - From Gustav Klimt to Egon Schiele

From November 30, 2024 to March 3, 2025, the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, in collaboration with the Leopold Museum, is presenting an exhibition of 191 works that show the activities of those artists in Vienna around 1900 who were striving for change and the transition to modernism. The Klimt Foundation is also contributing two early female portraits by Gustav Klimt, Girl in the Foliage (around 1898) and Lady with Cape and Hat against a Red Background (1897/98).

The show extends from the early years of the Vienna Secession with Gustav Klimt as founding president and the artistic ideas established in this association to the up-and-coming artists who in turn shaped the emerging Expressionism movement. Besides Klimt, Egon Schiele and his art in particular played a leading role. The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk and the attempt to fill the whole of life with art is visualized through various artistic disciplines, from music to design to all-encompassing architecture. This complex exhibition offers a multi-layered view of the transition to modernism and the search for new forms of expression in the fin-de-siècle.