1916, Gustav Klimt, Litzlbergkeller -- Leopold Museum (Vienna)
From the museum label: The close-up view of the restaurant "Litzlberger Keller" suggests that the work was painted from a boat. However, this painting commissioned by Otto Primavesi is strongly reminiscent of the "correspondence cards" Gustav Klimt sent to his friends back home in Vienna, which is why the assumption that he used such cards -- or photographs -- as templates for this cropped view is probably true. As he so often did in his landscapes, Klimt banished all evidence of people from the depiction, focusing only on the structure of nature and thus creating a sensitive atmospheric painting.
1916, Gustav Klimt, Litzlbergkeller -- Leopold Museum (Vienna)
From the museum label: The close-up view of the restaurant "Litzlberger Keller" suggests that the work was painted from a boat. However, this painting commissioned by Otto Primavesi is strongly reminiscent of the "correspondence cards" Gustav Klimt sent to his friends back home in Vienna, which is why the assumption that he used such cards -- or photographs -- as templates for this cropped view is probably true. As he so often did in his landscapes, Klimt banished all evidence of people from the depiction, focusing only on the structure of nature and thus creating a sensitive atmospheric painting.