LEOPOLD MUSEUM: OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN EXHIBITION ENTERS ITS FINAL WEEKS

09.10.2019

Floral intervention: Interpretation of a Wisinger-Florian painting by ZWEIGSTELLE Atelier

The successful exhibition “OLGA WISINGER-FLORIAN. FLOWER POWER OF MODERNISM” will be on display at the LEOPOLD MUSEUM up to and including Monday, 21st October. Featuring 120 exhibits, including 70 paintings, the presentation showcases the life and oeuvre of this eminent and successful Austrian painter.

On Saturday, 5th October, as part of the Long Night of Museums, and up to and including Monday, 14th October, Wisinger-Florian’s painting Wild Artichokes in Euxinograd will be juxtaposed with an innovative plant intervention. Florist Andreas Bamesberger of ZWEIGSTELLE Atelier created an exciting dialogue. Together with Benjamin Huber, he positioned a green installation, made up of artichokes and ferns placed on black metal trestles, diagonally to the oil painting in the exhibition hall. The splendid artichokes, which exude a Mediterranean flair, hail from the village of St. Andrä/Wördern near Vienna in Lower Austria. The thistle-like vegetables mirror the plants in Wisinger-Florian’s landscape and bring real nature into the museum.

“Interpreting a floral painting is never easy,” says Andreas Bamesberger, explaining that there was always a risk of copying. “We drew inspiration for this artichoke composition from Olga Wisinger-Florian’s painting. Using artichokes as our material, we wanted to mirror the painting’s foreshortened construction”. Rather than romanticizing an early 20th-century work, Bamesberger wanted to interpret it in a contemporary manner.

20th anniversary of ZWEIGSTELLE

The company ZWEIGSTELLE Atelier – which celebrates its 20-year anniversary this year – has been a steady cooperation partner to the Leopold Museum for the past two years, providing opulent floral decorations for exhibition openings, events held by the Circle of Patrons and Fundraising Dinners.

Olga Wisinger Florian in Euxinograd

The Bulgarian town of Euxinograd near Varna on the Black Sea was the location of the summer residence of Ferdinand I of Saxe-Coburg. From 1887 Ferdinand acted as Prince, and from 1908 to 1918 as Tsar of Bulgaria. Olga Wisinger-Florian, who had given painting lessons to the daughters of Ferdinand’s sister, Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg – the wife of Archduke Joseph Karl Ludwig of Austria – visited Clotilde and Ferdinand in 1906 in Euxinograd.

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