LAUNCHED 2025 AND CONTINUALLY EXPANDED:
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Moriz Nähr. Catalogue Raisonné
Always in close contact with the well-off and art-loving Viennese society, the self-taught photographer Moriz Nähr counted the imperial Habsburg dynasty, the Wittgenstein family and the Viennese Secession among his most important clients. An innovator of photography in Vienna around 1900, Nähr also formed an inspiring friendship with the famous painter Gustav Klimt. It is its independent character that makes the photographer’s multifaceted work so convincing. His oeuvre encompasses portraits, genre scenes, city and nature views, as well as architectural and interior photographs of innovative presentations of exhibitions.
With glass negatives and original prints, the Klimt Foundation owns a significant part of the photographer's estate, which provided the impetus for the first museum presentation of the artist's work at Vienna's Leopold Museum in 2018. In 2025, the Klimt Foundation, together with photo historian Uwe Schögl, subsequently published the first catalog raisonné, which is available online.
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Moriz Nähr. Photographer for Habsburg, Klimt and Wittgenstein
The Klimt Foundation is also publishing a monograph about Moriz Nähr. Contributions by renowned authors no longer present Nähr's oeuvre as a purely documentary phenomenon, but also contextualize the aesthetic and historical connections with Viennese Art Nouveau and the work of Gustav Klimt.