Vita Gazette- Italy was for Gustav Klimt a land of professional successes. The great artist returns to Rome more than a century after his participation in the 1911 International Art Exhibition. The great exhibition on Klimt with over 200 of his works on display, can be visited in Rome from 27 October 2021 to 27 March 2022 at Palazzo Braschi. The title of the exhibition is “Klimt. The Secession and Italy”.

The famous Austrian artist, animator of that revolution which was the so-called Viennese Secession, in 1903 made two trips to Ravenna which was the so-called Viennese Secession, in 1903 he made two trips to Ravenna which were fundamental for his formation. In his eyes, Ravenna still appeared “very miserable”, perhaps in comparison with the great European cultural capital Klimt that must have been Vienna in those years. But what really interested him about the trip were the mosaic tiles of the monuments: “of incredible splendor”. The heart of Ravenna was stolen precisely by the artistic and expressive grandeur of the splendid mosaics. The artist was a true connoisseur: when he was a boy he had learned to master the secrets of mosaic art at the Austrian school of arts and crafts. The gold of the Ravenna mosaics must also have aroused the memory of the activity of his father and brother, who were goldsmiths by profession. The discovery of Ravenna was so important to him …