Title
- Working Drawing of the Execution of a Mosaic Frieze for the Dining Hall of Stoclet House in Brussels: Part 1, Part of the Tree of Life
Production
- design: Gustav Klimt, Kammerl am Attersee, 1910 - 1911
- design: Gustav Klimt, Vienna, 1910 - 1911
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
Measurements
- height: 195 cm
- width: 94.5 cm
Inventory number
- MAL 226-1
Acquisition
- purchase , 1961-03-24
Department
- Library and Works on Paper Collection
Inscriptions
- text on object: [Anweisungen für die Umsetzung:] OBEN / I.THEIL / nicht verwenden / Auszuführende Blüthe / Volutenm (Mosaik) / Richtige Blüthe / Baum Blätter Mosaik sehr helles Grün / Diese Blüthe nicht verwenden / Volute einzuschalten für den wegfallenden Blütenstengel / Für die in Mosaik auszuführenden Stellen muß der Marmor / tiefer ausgehölt werden als für die in Material (Baumblüthen / Blumen und Blätter des Bodens) / Getriebenes Metasll (grünlich) gold / auszuführende Böüthe / Email einzufassen mit silberartigen Metall Stegen / getriebenes Metall Blüthe Material / Grün Mosaik / Blumen in Material (Email... / Grün Mosaik / getriebenes Metall etwas gebuckelt / Die Voluten sind am äußersten Rande durchzustechen damit / sie eher breiter, aber ja nicht schmäler werden / Material (Email) nicht verwenden / Material / Blätter getriebenes Metall (ein wenig gebuckelt und in Blüthen / Kristallglas geschliffen) / Email / Mosaik (grün) / Material (Email) / Mosaik Blätter getriebenes Metall (grünlich ein wenig gebuckelt) / Material (Email oder Glas) / Mosaik / Baum Blätter Mosaik sehr helles Grün nicht zu verwenden / Der Baum wird in Mosaik ausgeführt die Voluten so wie die Baumblätter / die Baumblüthen dagegen sind in Material gedacht (Email / eventuell farbiges Glas) / getriebens Metall (grünliches Gold) / Gustav Klimt / D 12 1/2 / F 9 / S 8 / S 9 / M 9 / D 9 / M 9 / D 14 1/2 / 80 / ERSTER THEIL VON LINKS / I. THEIL
Superordinated Object
Description
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Palais Stoclet (also known as the Stoclet House) in Brussels was planned between 1905 and 1911 by Josef Hoffmann in the style of the Vienna Secession and decorated by him and a great number of Wiener Werkstätte members, as well as others from that circle, in keeping with the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Not only the building
and the interior design, but in fact the entire decorating scheme is permeated by a synthesis of the three arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, wholly in keeping with the spirit of the Wiener Werkstätte. For the interior decorating, the best-known artists of the period around 1900 were called upon—including Carl Otto Czeschka,
Eduard Josef Wimmer- Wisgrill and Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel. The commission to do the dining room walls went to Gustav Klimt. Klimt’s years of work on this project produced nine cartoons at a scale of 1:1 that were then realized as mosaics. The motif of a sweeping tree of life on the long side of the room is mirrored on the opposite wall; the Dancer (Expectation) corresponds to the Lovers (Fulfillment) across from her. The front end of the room contains the abstract figure of the Knight. For these friezes’ execution by the Wiener Werkstätte and the Wiener Mosaikwerkstätte [Vienna Mosaic Workshop], Klimt handwrote on the cartoons instructions for Forstner according to which only the finest materials—such as enamel, mother-of-pearl and gold leaf—were to be used. This work is among the few that Klimt did at a monumental scale, and with its recourse to Egyptian, Byzantine, and Japanese models, it represents the climax of his artistically mature output.
(Pokorny-Nagel, Kathrin)
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working drawing, Working Drawing of the Execution of a Mosaic Frieze for the Dining Hall of Stoclet House in Brussels: Part 1, Part of the Tree of Life, Gustav Klimt, MAK Inv.nr. MAL 226-1
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Last update
- 29.01.2026
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