The Pushkin Museum Pushkin announces the exhibition of graphic works of the most prominent representatives of Austrian art of the early XX century — Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

the Date of the exhibition yet to be finalized. It is roughly the middle of October 2017 — the middle of January 2018. The exhibition will take place in Gallery of arts of Europe and America XIX–XX centuries (Volkhonka, 14). The project is timed to the "Year of tourism Russia — Austria 2017".

On the first in Russia large-scale exhibition of the works of Klimt and Schiele, there will be about 120 drawings from the collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna). Among them are "Initial D, illustration for the magazine Ver Sacrum" (1897/98) by Gustav Klimt and "the Sitting woman" (1918), "Reclining Topless girl" (1911), "Schiele with Nude model before a mirror" (1910) and "self-Portrait in orange jacket" (1913) by Egon Schiele. The exhibition will also be exhibited a fantastic, expressive and often tragic images graphics other Austrian Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), a contemporary of Schiele and Klimt.

Gustav Klimt enjoyed a reputation as a phenomenal painter who has secured a very special place not only in Austrian, but in the art world. His expressive drawings, including images of Nude models, shocking contemporaries with his candor, has influenced the work of younger artists Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.

Schiele started his career as a painter in a time when Klimt had already reached the peak of their creativity. In 1906, sixteen-year-old boy was the youngest among the students of the Vienna Academy of fine arts. In just the next few years he mastered various techniques of drawing, learned the experience of different artistic directions — naturalism, symbolism, late impressionism, modernism, freed from all conventions of academic art.

the Exhibition in the Pushkin Museum. Of A. S. Pushkin on a material of first-class works from the Albertina's collection will give viewers a deeper understanding of the evolution of the work of prominent Austrian artists, creative approach and unique aesthetic world of each of them.

Vitaly Mishin, curator of the exhibition, senior fellow of the art Galleries of Europe and America XIX–XX centuries, curator of French drawings of the XVI–XX centuries:

"I Think for many Russian spectators this exhibition will be opening new aesthetic horizons. She expands the usual understanding of the beauty, expressiveness and, perhaps, even the boundaries of what is permitted in art. In our country, because of different historical circumstances, it is much better to know the Parisian avant-garde early XX century, rather than the artistic life of Vienna “around 1900”. This also applies to the pattern, despite the fact that Klimt and Schiele long been recognized as one of the most distinguished draftsmen in art history. But to appreciate the pure graphic beauty and powerful energy of these works, they need to see with your own eyes: reproductions in books and on the Internet do not convey even a fraction of the artistic qualities of the drawings of the great Austrian masters. The exhibition halls of the Pushkin Museum based on the rich collection of the Albertina will give usthis rare opportunity".

Source: press-релиз Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin