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Gustav Klimt @ Tate Liverpool

A once in a lifetime experience at Tate Liverpool with the first major exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work ever staged in the UK.

This sublime exhibition focuses on the life and art of one of the world's most influential and revered artists. It will explore the role of Klimt as a leader of the Viennese Secession and will show the products and philosophy of the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop) during a Golden Age of 20th-century design.

Gustav Klimt and other artists of the Viennese Secession embraced art, architecture, fashion, dazzling decorative objects and furniture in their search for the total work of art.

The exhibition includes major paintings and drawings from all stages of Klimt's astonishing career presented alongside the work of the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann, co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte and a close friend of the artist.
Hoffmann designed extravagant interiors for Klimt's leading patrons and collectors creating a world of both refined simplicity and luxurious opulence.

Klimt described the Viennese Secession as a "community of all creative individuals and all connoisseurs" who attempted to redefine the relationship between art and life. This unmissable exhibition at Tate Liverpool will evoke the cultural revolution of Vienna around 1900 by integrating Klimt's work into spectacular settings.

Supported by the Liverpool Culture Company as part of European Capital of Culture 2008.