Georg Klimt - Frame “Beethoven“

Date	around 1902
Origin	Vienna
Dimensions	35.5 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

Designed and executed by: Georg Klimt

Brass, very finely chiselled, surface cleaned and newly
patinated, very good condition.

High-quality Viennese craftsmanship

Inscription, translated: "Already the night softens - / Out of this world / The master has spent it creating / Rapturously he listens to the sounds of the spheres. / Drunk with joy / And blissfully illuminated by the sparking of divinity / His spirit floats above the stars" (from a heliogravure by the printer Meisenbach, Riffarth & Co, Berlin, after a painting by Rudolf Eichstaedt, "Beethoven im Studierzimmer", around 1900).

Date: around 1902
Origin: Vienna
Dimensions: 35.5 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 inches)
Provenance:

Private property, Austria

Newly added cat. no. H21/23

Literature:

Ref.:
Thieme/Becker (eds.), Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. XX, Leipzig,
pp. 503

Categories: Works of Art

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