Three themes and three internationally renowned women with a connection to the Salzkammergut take centre stage: Grete Wiesenthal, who revolutionised dance and led it into the modern age, Emilie Flöge, who gave women the air to breathe in her fight against the bodice in order to promote women’s liberation, and the lady of the house, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, who turned Villa Toscana into a network centre of modernity thanks to her diverse talents. All three women were portrayed by Gustav Klimt, which was scientifically analysed in the “Second International Klimt Symposium” of the Klimt Foundation, organised in cooperation with the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl 2024.
Visual artists from the “world of yesterday” such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Erwin Lang, Charles Lucien Leandre and Moriz Nähr are juxtaposed with contemporary positions on Ludwig Wittgenstein and the phenomenon of summer holidays in the Salzkammergut. The Viennese artist Nikolaus Gansterer, the Colombian artist Monika Naranjo Uribe, the Viennese media artist Sylvia Eckermann, the Upper Austrian artist Petra Zechmeister and the Upper Austrian painter and installation artist Gerhard Gutenberger as well as the Spanish fashion designer Claudia Druy show that the examination of the period around 1900 still leads to great art today and provides important insights for our present.
In the children’s exhibition “Ludwig and the Rhinoceros”, the children’s book of the same name by Noemi Schneider and Golden Cosmos is made accessible and an idea from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy is colourfully visualised.
As part of the exhibition, “Salons” will take place over three weekends, in which the exchange of ideas, dance, theatre and music will be brought back to life as in the famous societies of the Wittgenstein family.
More Information and Details: salon@villa-toscana.at
