Klimt Villa Vienna

In the district of Hietzing, nestled amongst residential buildings, stands a neo-baroque villa surrounded by a spacious garden. From 1911 until his death in 1918, Gustav Klimt created some of his most important works in a ground-floor garden house that he used as a studio. He worked on more than 50 paintings here, including the world-famous pictures ‘Adele Bloch-Bauer II’, ‘Friederike Beer’, ‘The Bride’, and ‘Adam and Eve’. However, Klimt did not live to see the villa itself. It was only a few years after his death that the Hermann family, the owners of the garden house, began extending it. The extension, which transformed it into a neo-baroque villa, was only completed by its new owners, the Klein family, in 1923.

One of the aims of the Klimt Villa is to also take a critical look at the history surrounding Klimt. The current special exhibition ‘Klimt Lost’ is part of this endeavour. It focuses on the many art collectors who were persecuted and robbed during the Nazi era, as well as the handling of looted paintings after 1945.

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