InspirationAL Beethoven

A Symphony in Pictures from Vienna 1900

08 Dec 2020–05 Apr 2021 (Extended until July 4th)
LEVEL -2

Marking the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven in December 2020, the ­Leopold Museum presents a focus exhibition within the permanent presentation Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism. The exhibition Inspirational Beethoven. A Symphony in Pictures from Vienna 1900 centers on the imposing pictorial program created by Josef Maria Auchentaller for the music room of the villa belonging to the Viennese jewelry ­manufacturer Georg Adam Scheid. Consisting of five paintings measuring almost two-and-a-half meters in height with an overall length of around nine meters, Auchentaller drew inspiration for this work in 1898/99 from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, known as the Pastoral Symphony. The music room, which is emblematic for the multi-­faceted veneration of Beethoven prevalent around 1900, is now reconstructed for the first time in Austria at the Leopold Museum, where it will enter into a dialogue with works by artists of the Vienna Secession.

• Pressebilderliste (pdf, 346 kB)

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