Virtual Encounter via Zoom / Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer, 1916 (in Hebrew)
Due to the current national security situation, the Museum will be closed to the public. Most activities in physical spaces are postponed until further notice, except for a few events (free of charge, but advance registration is required).
We are all going through extremely trying times. In a bid to help, however modestly, we continue to offer, for the fourth week running, an hour of respite, by providing captivating lectures and encounters every day, free of charge, via Zoom.
This week we will recall past exhibitions at the Museum, get to know some of the beloved works in its collection, and visit important collections around the world. We invite you, the culture-loving public, to enjoy an hour of curiosity.
We wish everyone days of peace.
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Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer, 1916 / Lecturer: Galit Landau-Epstein, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art
The Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was one of the leading avant-garde artists in Europe at the turn of the 20th century. He painted the spectacular portrait of the Viennese socialite Friedericke Maria Beer in 1916, in the midst of World War I, just two years before his untimely death. The masterpiece, which occupies pride of place in the modern art collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, is one of the pinnacles of his oeuvre. We will take an artistic tour of magnificent Vienna in the early 20th-century, get to know the Jugendstil style and the Vienna Secession movement, focusing on two of its cultural heroes: Klimt and Beer.
Note: This activity is in Hebrew only.
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Image: Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer, 1916
The Mizne-Blumental Collection © Tel Aviv Museum of Art