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The Two Gustavs: Klimt & Mahler ONLINE VIA ZOOM

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The Two Gustavs: Klimt & Mahler ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Lecturer: Gavin Plumley

Lecture Date: 16 March, 2021

As members who went on our 2019 tour to Vienna will recall, Gustav Klimt and his colleagues broke away from the imperially endorsed art institutions in Vienna in 1897 and founded ‘the Secession’. That was the same year that Gustav Mahler arrived to take charge of the Opera House in the city. Comparing these two totemic fin de siècle talents, this lecture places Klimt and Mahler in context, asking what fundamentally links and, indeed, divides them.

Gavin Plumley is a writer and broadcaster, appearing on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and contributing to newspapers, magazines and opera and concert programmes worldwide. He lectures widely about the culture of Central Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. Recent talks include the Royal Opera House, the National Gallery, the National Trust, the National Theatre, the British Museum, the V&A, the Southbank Centre, the Tate and the Neue Galerie, New York, as well as for history of art societies and The Art Fund.