Stoclet Frieze
The Stoclet Frieze is about 2 feet high and 8 feet long, 1911 fitted wall Frieze by Gustav Klimt in the dining room of the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. The private palace is not publicly available; the eight -piece design for the frieze Klimt's full-size, fully restored for the 150th birthday of Klimt spent years building, is preserved in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts.
1904 Josef Hoffmann was awarded the contract to build a city palace in Brussels for the Belgian industrialist Adolphe Stoclet; the Wiener Werkstätte was entrusted simultaneously with the artistic design. Werkstätte CEO Fritz Wärndorfer commissioned the painter and friend of Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, with the design for a frieze in the dining room of the Palais. The implementation of Klimt painted design had to make the Viennese Leopold Forstner mosaic workshop in collaboration with specialists for metal and gold work, ceramics and enamel.
Klimt is likely to have begun in 1905 with the design work and designed on paper that was laminated on canvas, a paradisiacal scenario with gold tendrils, flowers, birds and humans ( profile, see below). In 1908 he is said to have made significant changes to the design before the implementation began in 1909.
The assembly of the Inlay executed in Vienna was in 1911 in the presence of Klimt in Brussels ( in Vienna Klimt had banned the public presentation of the work of his friend Berta Zuckerkandl but shown).
The frieze consists of two almost mirror-like parts, and is located at the two longitudinal walls of the rectangular dining room. The mosaic and Hoffmann space form in terms of a Gesamtkunstwerk artistically perfect unity. Hoffmann placed the images of Klimt with great understanding of the intentions of his friend, Klimt, in turn, tried to blend with great sensitiveness of the architecture. Overall, there are three issues which were each mounted on a wall. Is the Golden Knights between the representations of expectation and fulfillment.
The working drawings for the Stoclet Frieze consist of several parts, which are applied gold leaf and silver leaf on different thick wrapping paper and partly lead handwritten names. The drawings are now in the Department of Art Nouveau Art Deco the permanent collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Gallery
Designs for the wall frieze, 1905-1909
The expectation
The fulfillment
Tree of Life