Description & Technical information
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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