Klimt Villa

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From 1911 until his death in 1918, Gustav Klimt used a ground-floor garden house on Hietzing's Feldmühlgasse as a studio. More than 50 paintings from his late years were created here, including the second portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, “The Bride” and “Adam and Eve”.

Klimt did not know the present villa: only after his death did the owners have the garden house extended; in 1923 the Klein family completed the conversion with an upper floor, a southern annex and a northern outdoor staircase. This created a house within a house, at whose core the old studio rooms were preserved. In 1939 the Jewish Klein family had to flee from the Nazis; after 1945 the villa was returned to them, and in 1957 they sold the house to the Republic of Austria, which used it as a school for a long time.

Afterwards the building stood empty and was even threatened with demolition. After protests from the public, the Burghauptmannschaft and the Federal Monuments Office had the villa renovated for the Klimt Year 2012. On the ground floor, the structure of the studio was restored as far as possible, and the painter's reception and work rooms were faithfully reconstructed.

Besides the studio, the house shows the permanent exhibition “Klimt Lost”, which deals with persecuted collectors, Nazi-looted art and Klimt's missing works. The garden, about 6,500 square metres in size, is being gradually replanted following the historical model; in 2022 a Klimt sculpture by Erwin Kastner was added on the south side.

Højdepunkter

• Reconstructed reception and work room of Gustav Klimt
• Preserved studio structure in the house-within-a-house building
• Exhibition “Klimt Lost” on looted art and lost works
• Damask roses from Klimt's garden, propagated as the “Klimt Villa Rose”
• Klimt sculpture by Erwin Kastner (2022)

Permanente udstillinger

• Klimts Atelier – On the ground floor, the studio structure as well as the painter's reception and work rooms, in which he created his last works, have been restored.
• Klimt Lost – The exhibition tells of Klimt's collectors, their persecution and plundering during the Nazi era, and the fate of missing and restituted paintings.

Grundlagt

2012

Ejer

Gustav Klimt Atelier – Kultur, Kunst und Event GmbH

Entrépriser & rabatter

All tickets include a smartphone audio guide. Discount for Ö1 Club members and with the Vienna City Card; free admission with the Vienna Pass.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The villa and garden are accessible without barriers, access to the exhibition is step-free, and the rooms themselves have few barriers. Dogs are not allowed, except guide dogs for the blind and therapy dogs.

Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

• Café

Garden Café with coffee and cake under chestnut trees – May to September, Saturday and Sunday 10 am–6 pm, in fine weather only. Klimt items (prints, books, perfume) in the online shop.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer
• Bryllupper / vielser

Listed rooms of various sizes and a 6,500 m² garden for weddings, celebrations, corporate events, readings, vernissages, conferences and receptions; banquet brochure on request or as a PDF.

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