Stoclet Palace

The Palais Stoclet is a built in 1905-1911 in the style of the Vienna Secession Villa in Brussels. The architect was Josef Hoffmann; by Gustav Klimt comes the Stoclet Frieze.

Adolphe Stoclet commissioned builder Hoffmann, who was initially too busy with the construction of the sanatorium Purkersdorf near Vienna, to create together with the authorities responsible for the artistic decoration of Wiener Werkstätte a work of art. At the very complex concept alongside Klimt many other Viennese artists (including Czeschka, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Emilie Schleiss - Simandl, Richard Luksch, Elena Luksch - Makowska and Franz Metzner ) were then involved.

Gustav Klimt ( which in art history so-called Stoclet Frieze ) commissioned for the dining room of the Palais in this frame with a executed by the mosaic workshop Leopold Forstner together with specialists Fries. Klimt created the first draft in 1905, but changed his concept later and recorded in the summer of 1908 at his summer residence on the Attersee transfer drawings in original size (today in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts ). 1909 began Wiener specialists, try out the materials for the transfer. 1911 Klimt was present at the transfer of his design on the walls of the dining room of the palace.

The performance of the Palais Stoclet most precious materials were used, such as Norwegian Turili marble for the exterior walls or yellow-brown Italian Paonazzo marble on the interior walls. By the Belgian artist George Minne originate individual sculptures and statues as well as colored by Fernand Khnopff Drawings for the music room.

The Palais influenced stylistically including the Parisian architect Robert Mallet- Stevens, a nephew of the wife of Adolphe Stoclet.

Since the end of June 2009, the Palais Stoclet is part of the UNESCO world heritage. It is still accessible privately owned and not open to the public.

2012 Tobias G. Natter published in the book edited by him Klimt paintings directory for the first time and in detail to some 80 pages of photographs Stocletfrieses in color.