Gustav Klimt Center at Lake Attersee, Art museum in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria
The Klimt Center displays photographs, documents, and multimedia presentations that reveal the artist's deep connection to Lake Attersee from 1900 to 1916. The collection focuses on his landscape paintings and personal stays during summer months at the lake.
The artist spent regular summer holidays at Lake Attersee from 1900 to 1916 and created some of his most noted landscape paintings there. His stays at the lake left a lasting mark on the region's artistic heritage.
The 2024 reopening, run by the local association Klimt am Attersee, sets three focuses: Klimt, his contemporaries and present-day art. The opening exhibition "Wege zur Moderne. Gustav Klimt und Franz von Zülow" ran until 29 September 2024, pairing four original Klimt drawings with hand-coloured stencil prints and ceramics by Zülow. A light installation by Heinz Kasper and a small Lego original by Ai Weiwei carry the link to today.
The center is in Kammer, part of Schörfling am Attersee, on the lake's eastern shore. The Gustav Klimt Themenweg runs along the promenade in Kammer-Schörfling and Seewalchen, with further panels at Litzlberg (L1–L5) and on the southern shore in Unterach, Steinbach and Weißenbach. Some steles have square openings for composing your own views, as Klimt did with a cardboard viewfinder.
The center maintains a dedicated artist trail along Lake Attersee that marks the exact spots where the painter created his most celebrated landscape works. This route allows visitors to stand where the artist once stood and understand his artistic choices firsthand.
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