EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Held under an exchange program between the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and the Austrian Gallery of the Belvedere, as well as being designated an official event of Austria’s millennium celebrations, the special exhibition featured the works of Austrian artists from the late-19th to early-20th centuries. Contemporaries of French impressionists, these artists, who were based mainly in Vienna, developed a distinct identity and style known as post-impressionism. “Gustav Klimt and the Austrian Impressionists: Collection of the Austrian Gallery of the Belvedere” featured 60 works of 20 painters, including Emil Jakob Schindler and Ego Schiele, and was the first in the world to position their work as Austrian impressionists. In addition, a full-scale reproduction of Klimt’s mural, the “Beethoven Frieze,” was specially exhibited to commemorate the centennial of the Vienna Secession.