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Klimt ceiling paintings on display in Vienna theater’s daily scaffolding tours
Visitors climb scaffolding to view 10 Klimt ceiling paintings being restored by hand after water damage, with tickets sold for 25 euros ($29).
- For more than a century, only experts viewed early works by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Vienna, but fans now access daily guided tours high on scaffolding. The 10 ceiling paintings are undergoing restoration due to water damage.
- Klimt painted the art from 1886-1888 alongside his brother Ernst and painter Franz Matsch. Conservator Thomas Mahr noted the artists' pitch was, "We are young, we are fast, and provide great work at low cost."
- Using fine cotton swabs, the restoration team cleans the 60-foot-high ceilings. Burgtheater commercial director Robert Beutler told The Associated Press the largest painting measures about 35 square meters.
- Visitors like Susanne and her husband Hannes noted details invisible from the floor, such as the cigarette in the fingers of Ernst. Tickets for these special tours, which continue until August, cost 25 euros .
- One work depicts 16th-century London, showing Queen Elizabeth watching a staging of Romeo and Juliet. This early style contrasts with Klimt's later famous work, The Kiss, displayed at the Belvedere Museum.
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Klimt ceiling paintings on display in Vienna theater’s daily scaffolding tours
Gustav Klimt's early works in Vienna are now accessible to the public for the first time. The 10 oil paintings on the ceilings of the Burgtheater are being restored because of water damage.
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Ten years accessible only to the conservators and experts, ten oil paintings made by Gustav Klimt on the ceilings of the Vienna Burgtheater can now be seen from almost any art lover, in the framework of daily guided tours organized on the skeletons mounted for restoration of works. The paintings are 18 meters high and are subjected to a wide restoration process, after suffering damage caused by water. The works are manually cleaned, with cotton …
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