The Editions
The Klimt Foundation has been editing two series of publications - Edition Klimt and Edition Klimt Research - on internal research projects and external research collaborations in the field of Gustav Klimt, the "Vienna 1900" era and in the context of the founder Ursula Ucicky and the collector Gustav Ucicky.
The Edition Klimt focuses on artistic and personal milestones in the life and work of the Austrian Art Nouveau painter and pioneer of modernism, like: his last studio in Feldmühlgasse, his summer sojourns at the Attersee, the fashion designer Emilie Flöge or the development of floral Art Nouveau and its effects on Gustav Klimt's oeuvre.
The Edition Klimt-Research focuses on new research facets in the life and work of Gustav Klimt as well as interdisciplinary topics within the historically significant "Vienna 1900" era. The first volume in this series is dedicated to an aspect that is specifically related to the collection of the Klimt Foundation: the unknown correspondence from Gustav Klimt to Maria Ucicka, the mother of his first illegitimate son Gustav.
In addition, projects with a certain "Vienna 1900" focus are published in cooperation with external researchers:
With the four-volume compilation Gustav Klimt & the Secession. 1897-1905, edited by Gerd Pichler, Sandra Tretter and Peter Weinhäupl for the Klimt Foundation, a comprehensive publication will appear soon in the Edition Klimt Research, which, in addition to the publications on the Munich (2008) and Berlin Secession (2017) now closes the existing gap with the Vienna Secession as the third trend-setting institution and movement of European modernism. The focus here is on the era of Gustav Klimt in the Vienna Secession, who significantly shaped it as a founding member and first president and is inseparably linked to the importance of this groundbreaking artists' association and epoch, which still exists today. The early phase from the founding of the "Association of Visual Artists Austria's Secession" to the departure of the Klimt Group in 1905 is thus illuminated and a comprehensive complete work is presented for the first time.
Furthermore, the first detailed online catalogue raisonné on the photographer Moriz Nähr will be launched soon. The oeuvre of the autodidact is no longer received exclusively as a purely documentary phenomenon. The aesthetic and historical connections with the Viennese Art Nouveau and especially with Gustav Klimt's work are also in focus.
Both editions are available in bookshops or can be ordered via: office@klimt-foundation.com