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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Farmhouse With Birch Trees" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Crouching Female Nude" Collotype plate V
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Astronomy, Plate 120 from Gerlach's Allegorien, Vienna Secession lithograph
By Hanus Schwaiger
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized publication of artworks by a group of Viennese artists and students beginning in 1897. Martin Gerlach, its publisher, was inspired by the new rise of modernist design in Vienna and selected those who were demonstrating a new command of the style to contribute works to the series, including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka, and Hanus Schwaiger. Each plate explores a different theme or collection of topics, such as dance, astronomy, electricity, and graphic arts, which brought a new aesthetic of design to the traditional allegory genre.
Stone lithograph of Hanus Schwaiger’s Astronomie, published as Plate 102 in Gerlach’s Allegorien...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Death and Life" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Russian Soldier" Collotype plate VII
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human condition. Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpreters as Eros and Thanatos). Life, identified with attraction, love, sexuality, and reproduction, and Death, represented by distortion, disease, repulsion, and hysteria, often appeared in the same composition, thereby suggesting the frightening life cycle of the human mind and body.
Young throughout his career, Schiele universalized his childhood traumas, thriving libido, insecurities, fears, and longings. His contorted line, jarring contrasts, and flat areas of color, demonstrate an early alliance with Expressionist philosophy and artists who were relentlessly frustrated by conventionality in all its forms. Schiele’s work embodied man’s disorientation and confusion in a seemingly absurd world, a world plagued by disease and war. It continues to be astonishingly relevant today, not just because it helped define Modernism but also because it revealed the dark and immutable aspects of the human condition.
Zeichnungen is a fine art print portfolio published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Portrait Study (Head of a Girl)" Collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Swamp" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Golden Apple Tree" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Reclining Girl, Half-Figure" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Portrait of Baroness Wittgenstein" collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #4, Bildnis Baronin Wittgenstein; dark grey monochrome collotype after the 1905 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a portfolio of 30 collotypes prints, 15 are multi-color and 15 are monochrome, on chine colle paper laid down on heavy cream-wove paper with deckled edges; Max Eisler, Editor-Publisher; Osterreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Printer; in a limited edition of 500 numbered examples of which: 200 were printed in German, 150 were printed in French and 150 were printed in English; Vienna, 1931.
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s death. It is a fitting time to reflect upon the enduring legacy and deep impact of his art. Recognizing this need for posterity with uncanny foresight, the publication of Gustav Klimt: An Aftermath (Eine Nachlese) provides a rare collection of work after Klimt which has proven to be an indispensable tool for Klimt scholarship as well as a source for pure visual delight.
Approximately 25 percent of the original works featured in the Aftermath portfolio have since been lost. Of those 30, six were destroyed by fire on 8 May 1945. On that fateful final day of WWII, the retreating Feldherrnhalle, a tank division of the German Army, set fire to the Schloss Immendorf which was a 16th century castle in Lower Austria used between 1942-1945 to store objects of art. All three of Klimt’s Faculty Paintings: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence (1900-1907), originally created for the University of Vienna, were on premises at that time. Also among the inventory of Klimt paintings in storage there was art which had been confiscated by the Nazis. One of the most significant confiscated collections was the Lederer collection which featured many works by Gustav Klimt such as Girlfriends II and Garden Path with Chickens...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Female Nude, Back View" Collotype plate
Located in Chicago, IL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Sisters" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio printed on the cream paper each of which Klimt designed for the publication as unique and relating to its corresponding image; H.O. Miethke, Editor-Publisher; k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Printer; printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered plus several presentation copies; Vienna, 1908-1914.
The idea of collaboration in the arts is anything but new; however it has so often been viewed and assessed as somehow devaluing the intrinsic worth of art. It’s as if it was a dirty secret to be hidden away. More so even than the eroticism explored by Klimt, which divided public opinion, the artistic avant-garde began to boldly flaunt artistic collaboration beginning in the 19th century- which gained steam in the first part of the 20th century- to become a driving vehicle of contemporary artistic creation. Viewed in this context, the folios of collotype prints published by H.O. Miethke in Vienna between 1908-1914 known as Das Werk Gustav Klimts, are important art documents worthy of as much consideration for their bold stand they take on established ways of thinking about artistic collaboration as they are for their breathtakingly striking images.
1908 is indeed a watershed moment in the history of art. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Kunstschau opened in Vienna in May of that year. It was there that Klimt delivered the inaugural speech. Speaking about the avant-garde group’s unifying philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk, or the synthesis of the arts, Klimt shared his belief that the ideal means to bring artists and an audience together was via “work on major art projects.” It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Klimt first exhibited his most iconic painting, The Kiss, as well as The Sunflower, Water Snakes I and II and Danae. It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Das Werk Gustav Klimts was first available for purchase. Thanks to Galerie Miethke’s organization, Kunstschau 1908 was possible. Miethke’s pioneering art house had become Klimt’s exclusive art dealer and main promoter of his modernist vision. Paul Bacher and Carl Moll, a founding member with Klimt of the Vienna Secession, who all broke away during the rift in 1905, took stewardship of the gallery following the fallout with the Secession. Das Werk Gustav Klimts is a prime example of Miethke’s masterful and revolutionary approach to marketing art. Miethke’s innovative marketing strategy played to a penchant for exclusivity. The art gallery and publishing house utilized the press and art critics- such as Austria’s preeminent Art Historian, Hugo Haberfield, who became Director of the gallery in 1912- as a means of gaining publicity as well as maintaining effective public relations. Miethke used the grand exposition format to extend the art gallery’s market reach, cultivating their product’s prestige by stroking the egos of current art patrons while simultaneously creating accessibility for newcomers and others avid collectors to share a relative proximity to other wealthy and respected members of the art collecting community. Essentially, their approach paved the way for what is still the predominant means of marketing.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published a total of 5 installments of print folios of Klimt’s painted work, each comprising 10 prints. The series was limited in availability to 300 and purchase was arranged through subscription. Each issue was presented unbound in a gold embossed black paper folder. Included in the folio was a Title Page, a Justification page and a Table of Contents page itemizing each of the 10 printed works with details about their corresponding painted works as well as information about each work’s current owner. These folios were not comprehensive of Klimt’s work; but rather, they feature what he believed were his most important paintings from 1898-1913. Only 2 collotypes in each folio were multicolored.
To punctuate the fact that Klimt, himself, was very much an active player in creating these printed works, he created square-shaped signets, unique to each collotype which were intaglio printed in gold ink at the bottom of the cream wove papers to which the chine collie papers were affixed.These signets relate thematically to their corresponding printed images and designate each of those images by their placement in the folio’s Table...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Archival Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Birch Forest I" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
The Thirst, Plate 52 from Gerlach's Allegorien, Vienna Secession lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Wilhelm List, a friend and follower of Gustav Klimt, was a founder and leading member of the Vienna Secession and contributor to its official magazine, Ver Sacrum...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "One-Year-Volunteer Private" Collotype plate V
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Female semi-nude on bedding, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Female semi-nude on bedding, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Standing nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of a figure drawing from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch) in 1922 by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is pr...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Rose" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper wi...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Baby" collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #25, Baby; black & white collotype after the 1917 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT ...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Two Girls, Lying Entwined" Collotype plate VIII
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Portrait of a Child" Collotype plate X
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful draftsmanship and precocious insight into the human condition. Part of the first wave of Austrian Modernism, he was swept away by the Viennese fascination with the tension between Life and Death (known in the works of Freud and his later interpreters as Eros and Thanatos). Life, identified with attraction, love, sexuality, and reproduction, and Death, represented by distortion, disease, repulsion, and hysteria, often appeared in the same composition, thereby suggesting the frightening life cycle of the human mind and body.
Young throughout his career, Schiele universalized his childhood traumas, thriving libido, insecurities, fears, and longings. His contorted line, jarring contrasts, and flat areas of color, demonstrate an early alliance with Expressionist philosophy and artists who were relentlessly frustrated by conventionality in all its forms. Schiele’s work embodied man’s disorientation and confusion in a seemingly absurd world, a world plagued by disease and war. It continues to be astonishingly relevant today, not just because it helped define Modernism but also because it revealed the dark and immutable aspects of the human condition.
Zeichnungen is a fine art print portfolio published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Richard Lanyi, Vienna, 1917, printed by Max Jaffe...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #83: "Seasons" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital f...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Sonja Knips" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Pond in the Morning" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Family" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper w...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Black Feather Hat" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Nude With Raised Arm" Collotype plate IX
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA
“ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE
Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Farm Garden With Sunflowers" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #85: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Hermine Gallia" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Lady in a Feathered Hat" collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #2, Dame mit Blumenhut (aka The Violet Hat); sepia monochrome collotype after the 1909 painting in oil on canvas.
...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Great Poplar II (Thunderstorm)" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Gertha Felsövanyi" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Lady in Red and Black" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Dance & Wine" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Litzlberg on Lake Attersee" collotype
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #8, Litzlberg on Lake Attersee; blue monochrome collotype after the 1915 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN ...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #75: "Hunting, Fishing, Rowing, Cycling"
Located in Chicago, IL
Koloman Moser
(1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN
Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury.
Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession.
In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings.
Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Adam & Eve” collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #20, Adam und Eva; multi-color collotype after unfinished 1917/18 painting in oil on canvas.
GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT AN AFTERMATH), a...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Church in Cassone by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Church in Cassone, painted in 1913. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Schloss Kammer on Lake Attarsee II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under each of the 50 prints is a gold signet intaglio printed on the cream paper each of which Klimt designed for the publication as unique and relating to its corresponding image; H.O. Miethke, Editor-Publisher; k.k. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Printer; printed in a limited edition of 300 numbered plus several presentation copies; Vienna, 1908-1914.
The idea of collaboration in the arts is anything but new; however it has so often been viewed and assessed as somehow devaluing the intrinsic worth of art. It’s as if it was a dirty secret to be hidden away. More so even than the eroticism explored by Klimt, which divided public opinion, the artistic avant-garde began to boldly flaunt artistic collaboration beginning in the 19th century- which gained steam in the first part of the 20th century- to become a driving vehicle of contemporary artistic creation. Viewed in this context, the folios of collotype prints published by H.O. Miethke in Vienna between 1908-1914 known as Das Werk Gustav Klimts, are important art documents worthy of as much consideration for their bold stand they take on established ways of thinking about artistic collaboration as they are for their breathtakingly striking images.
1908 is indeed a watershed moment in the history of art. To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I, Kunstschau opened in Vienna in May of that year. It was there that Klimt delivered the inaugural speech. Speaking about the avant-garde group’s unifying philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk, or the synthesis of the arts, Klimt shared his belief that the ideal means to bring artists and an audience together was via “work on major art projects.” It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Klimt first exhibited his most iconic painting, The Kiss, as well as The Sunflower, Water Snakes I and II and Danae. It was at Kunstschau 1908 that Das Werk Gustav Klimts was first available for purchase. Thanks to Galerie Miethke’s organization, Kunstschau 1908 was possible. Miethke’s pioneering art house had become Klimt’s exclusive art dealer and main promoter of his modernist vision. Paul Bacher and Carl Moll, a founding member with Klimt of the Vienna Secession, who all broke away during the rift in 1905, took stewardship of the gallery following the fallout with the Secession. Das Werk Gustav Klimts is a prime example of Miethke’s masterful and revolutionary approach to marketing art. Miethke’s innovative marketing strategy played to a penchant for exclusivity. The art gallery and publishing house utilized the press and art critics- such as Austria’s preeminent Art Historian, Hugo Haberfield, who became Director of the gallery in 1912- as a means of gaining publicity as well as maintaining effective public relations. Miethke used the grand exposition format to extend the art gallery’s market reach, cultivating their product’s prestige by stroking the egos of current art patrons while simultaneously creating accessibility for newcomers and others avid collectors to share a relative proximity to other wealthy and respected members of the art collecting community. Essentially, their approach paved the way for what is still the predominant means of marketing.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published a total of 5 installments of print folios of Klimt’s painted work, each comprising 10 prints. The series was limited in availability to 300 and purchase was arranged through subscription. Each issue was presented unbound in a gold embossed black paper folder. Included in the folio was a Title Page, a Justification page and a Table of Contents page itemizing each of the 10 printed works with details about their corresponding painted works as well as information about each work’s current owner. These folios were not comprehensive of Klimt’s work; but rather, they feature what he believed were his most important paintings from 1898-1913. Only 2 collotypes in each folio were multicolored.
To punctuate the fact that Klimt, himself, was very much an active player in creating these printed works, he created square-shaped signets, unique to each collotype which were intaglio printed in gold ink at the bottom of the cream wove papers to which the chine collie papers were affixed.These signets relate thematically to their corresponding printed images and designate each of those images by their placement in the folio’s Table...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Portrait of Paula Zuckerkandl" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Orchard in the Evening" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Great Poplar I" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Atlas Cornice Drawings 1 — Vienna Secessionist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Heinrich Brad Schmidt, two early 20th-century German Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Pencil
Peacock displaying in Magenta and Yellow Birds
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The reality is that this is an eye-witness account of a male peacock displaying for the attention of a female peahen. It turns out that humans are equally...
Category
2010s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Lady in Red and Black by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Lady in Red and Black. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Collotype on chine colle paper laid down on heavy deckled-edge cream-wove paper.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Atlas Cornice Drawings 2 —Vienna Secessionist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Two early 20th-century Vienna Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot glued by the artist to ...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Pencil
Gustav Klimt "Water Serpent Study" collotype from Funfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Title page numbered: 263/450. Collotype is presented in a handmade, gold-leaf frame.
Category
1910s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farmhouse in Buchberg (Upper Austrian Farmhouse), painted in 1911. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Self Portrait. Original Oil Painting Austrian 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Joseph Weidner
Austrian 1801 - 1870
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23 x 19 inches (58.5 x 48.5 cm)
Original gilt swept fra...
Category
1860s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer, oil on canvas, 1915. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500.
In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original...
Category
1930s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #98: "Poetry" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian
A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category
1890s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seated woman, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch) collotype lithograph, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1922 collotype lithograph of a woman draped in fabric, created from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch). Published by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition o...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Woman in dress, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Woman in dress, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, i...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Woman in scarf, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of a well-dressed woman wearing a scarf around her face, leaving only her eyes exposed. This work was pubished from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sket...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Bust of a Woman, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Bust of a Woman, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This art...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Seated nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Seated nude, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Century Guild...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Malcesine on Lake Garda by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk landscape collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Malcesine on Lake Garda, painted in 1913. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300.
Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper
Woman in hat and stockings, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1922 collotype lithograph of a well-dressed woman in a hat and stockings, created from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch). Published by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vien...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Vienna Secession art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Vienna Secession art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, (after) Gustav Klimt, Anastasia Kurakina, and (after) Egon Schiele. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Vienna Secession art, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $250 and tops out at $125,000, while the average work sells for $3,500.
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