Curator’s evening preview: 'Klimt / Schiele'
Tuesday 30 October 2018 6.30 - 8.30pm
The Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
Free. Patrons only.
Klimt / Schiele
Patrons have the first opportunity to see rare and fragile drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, offering intimate insights into their artistic relationship and differing creative processes. This extraordinary collaboration with the Albertina Museum in Vienna marks the centenary of both artists’ deaths.
Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna is a unique opportunity to see some of the 20th century’s most important works on paper – amongst them Klimt’s sketches for his seminal Beethoven Frieze, and unflinching self-portraits by Schiele – which due to their delicacy will not see the light of day again for many years. In around 100 portraits, landscapes, nudes and erotic drawings, prepare to encounter these two icons of Modernism at their most raw and revealing.