{"id":23795,"date":"2020-04-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2024-12-15T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T16:46:01","slug":"inspirational-beethoven-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/inspirational-beethoven-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beethovenleopold.jpg\" alt=\"Beethoven portrait\" class=\"wp-image-23799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beethovenleopold.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/beethovenleopold-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beethoven inspired a lot of folk. Including the Jugendstil artist, Josef Maria Auchentaller. The latter&#8217;s pictorial representation of the Pastoral Symphony decorated the music room of his father-in-law&#8217;s Viennese villa. The room and paintings form the focus of the <em>Inspirational Beethoven<\/em> exhibition at the Leopold Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reconstruction of the music room with its five paintings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other contemporary works also illustrate Beethoven&#8217;s influence on turn-of-the-century visual art<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs: Dec 8, 2020 &#8211; Jul 4, 2021<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/leopold-museum\/\">Leopold Museum visitor &amp; ticket info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a> on at the moment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A symphony in pictures<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inspirationalbeethoven.jpg\" alt=\"The Beethoven Music Room\" class=\"wp-image-23798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inspirationalbeethoven.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inspirationalbeethoven-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Fotomontage des Beethoven-Musikzimmers der Villa Scheid, 1898\/99 \u00a9 Andreas Maleta, aus der Victor &amp; Martha Thonet Sammlung, Galerie punkt12 Foto: amp, Andreas Maleta Press &amp; Publication, Wien, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a man associated with classical music in its most formal sense, Beethoven has an undiminished influence on an eclectic variety of creative arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 1902, for example, the progressive artists bound up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/secession\/\">Viennese Secession<\/a> put on the now-legendary Beethoven exhibition in tribute to the Bonn-born maestro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Gustav Klimt created his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/beethoven-frieze\/\">Beethoven Frieze<\/a> for the occasion, which you can see in all its glory at the Secession building today.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josef Maria Auchentaller (1865-1949) was another member of that adventurous group of artists and produced a piece for that 1902 exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, his <em>Freude, sch\u00f6ner G\u00f6tterfunken<\/em> (Joy, Beautiful Spark of Divinity) frieze has since disappeared into the black hole of art history. The title came from the first line of Schiller&#8217;s <em>Ode to Joy<\/em> poem, better known for its appearance in Beethoven&#8217;s Ninth Symphony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Inspirational Beethoven<\/em> exhibition at the Leopold Museum takes a closer look at an earlier Auchentaller work, where the artist also used Beethoven as his muse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music rooms were a thing in the Vienna of the day and no such room could be considered truly complete without suitably-inspiring walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, at the very end of the 19th-century, Georg Adam Scheid invited Auchentaller (who happened to be his son-in-law as well as a gifted artist and designer) to come up with something appropriate for the music room in Scheid&#8217;s villa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auchentaller produced a rather magnificent ensemble of five paintings reflecting the theme of Beethoven&#8217;s Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The particular point of the collection is that Auchentaller really did rely entirely on the music as inspiration and motif, turning a symphony into physical form through art. Each painting represents one of the five movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhat ironically, Beethoven noted at the symphony&#8217;s premiere that his piece was&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230;more expression of feeling than painting<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Inspirational Beethoven<\/em> exhibition reconstructs that very music room and ensemble. It also juxtaposes Auchentaller&#8217;s paintings with works by other artists of the time (including Klimt) to further highlight the influence of Beethoven on the visual arts decades beyond his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Draw your own inspiration from the paintings from December 8th 2020 to July 4th, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A normal entrance ticket for the museum (or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/vienna-pass-review\/\">sightseeing pass<\/a>) gets you into all the exhibitions inside, including <em>Inspirational Beethoven<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you visit before early January, the Leopold museum also has a rather fine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/hundertwasser-schiele-exhibition\/\">exhibition<\/a> examining the considerable influence of Egon Schiele on Hundertwasser&#8217;s art and philosophy (especially noticeable in the latter&#8217;s early works).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course, enjoy plenty of works by Auchentaller&#8217;s colleagues in the museum&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/schiele-leopold\/\">Vienna 1900<\/a> permanent display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow directions for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\">MuseumsQuartier<\/a> (MQ). Once in the main courtyard, you can&#8217;t miss the Leopold Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spring and summer, that same courtyard becomes an oasis of chatter and relaxation. All thanks to the open-air bars and much-loved coloured furniture in the unique and distinctive MQ style. Not a bad place to grab a glass of wine while humming a few Beethoven tunes beneath the evening sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1i9IZX6LeUKth_5sm2EOO-SqQl8s\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beethoven inspired a lot of folk. Including the Jugendstil artist, Josef Maria Auchentaller. The latter&#8217;s pictorial representation of the Pastoral Symphony decorated the music room of his father-in-law&#8217;s Viennese villa. 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