Klimt Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse

This substantial and beautiful book and its corresponding exhibition celebrate the three-hundredth anniversary of the Belvedere and form a prelude to the fifty-year jubilee marking the Van Gogh Museum's opening. With the placement of works by Klimt next to so many famous works, the curators insightfully display their case for the influence of prominent Western European artists on Gustav Klimt. Starting in Amsterdam (October 7, 2022–January 8, 2023) with the title "Golden Boy Gustav Klimt: Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse …," the exhibition moved to Vienna's Belvedere Museum (February 7–May 29, 2023) with a shortened title: "Klimt. Inspired by Van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse…." With research consisting of letters from Klimt and others and contemporaneous art criticism by Hermann Bahr, Ludwig Hevesi, and Berta Zuckerkandl, the authors uniquely place Klimt at specific exhibitions and in private homes with art collections. These new insights into where Klimt would have seen European art undergird this exhibition's claim: that many European artists' works influenced Klimt's own paintings.