Museum Employee’s Will Points to a Long-Lost Klimt Drawing
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Museum Employee’s Will Points to a Long-Lost Klimt Drawing
According to Mr. Stieber, the secretary’s will said
that in 1964, she noticed some irregularities with the documentation of the Schiele pictures after a loan to the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and notified the Neue Galerie’s then-director, Walter Kasten.
15, 2018
LINZ, Austria — A long-lost pencil drawing of two reclining women by the Austrian artist
Gustav Klimt has resurfaced in a former secretary’s home here, tucked away in a closet.
In addition to the exhibition in Linz, numerous other museums in Austria will be showing the works of the two artists, along with the work of the graphic designer Koloman Moser
and the architect Otto Wagner, throughout the year to commemorate the centenary of their deaths.
Mr. Kasten told her to keep the irregularities quiet
and gave her the Klimt drawing as "hush art," Mr. Steiber said, further describing the will’s account of the events.
The drawing, along with three works by Klimt’s contemporary Egon Schiele, was part of a long legal battle and an even longer back story.
After both requests, city and museum officials searched through municipal and regional art collections, but the art was nowhere to be found.
According to Mr. Stieber, the secretary’s will said
that in 1964, she noticed some irregularities with the documentation of the Schiele pictures after a loan to the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and notified the Neue Galerie’s then-director, Walter Kasten.
15, 2018
LINZ, Austria — A long-lost pencil drawing of two reclining women by the Austrian artist
Gustav Klimt has resurfaced in a former secretary’s home here, tucked away in a closet.
In addition to the exhibition in Linz, numerous other museums in Austria will be showing the works of the two artists, along with the work of the graphic designer Koloman Moser
and the architect Otto Wagner, throughout the year to commemorate the centenary of their deaths.
Mr. Kasten told her to keep the irregularities quiet
and gave her the Klimt drawing as "hush art," Mr. Steiber said, further describing the will’s account of the events.
The drawing, along with three works by Klimt’s contemporary Egon Schiele, was part of a long legal battle and an even longer back story.
After both requests, city and museum officials searched through municipal and regional art collections, but the art was nowhere to be found.