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Summary
Gustav Klimt: The Hostile Powers, the Titan Typhoeus, the Three Gorgons
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q34661 |
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Title |
The Hostile Powers, the Titan Typhoeus, the Three Gorgons label QS:Len,"The Hostile Powers, the Titan Typhoeus, the Three Gorgons"
label QS:Lde,"Typhoeus und Wollust, Unkeuschheit, Unmäßigkeit"
label QS:Lfr,"Les Forces du Mal et les trois Gorgones" |
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Part of |
Beethoven Frieze ![]() |
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Object type |
painting ![]() |
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Genre |
allegory ![]() |
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Description |
Español: In 1901, Klimt painted the Beethoven Frieze for the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition in celebration of the composer, and featured a monumental polychrome sculpture by Max Klinger. Meant for the exhibition only, the frieze was painted directly on the walls with light materials. After the exhibition the painting was preserved, although it did not go on display again until 1986. The Beethoven Frieze is on permanent display in the Vienna Secession Building in a specially built, climate controlled basement room.
The frieze is large, standing at 7 feet high with a width of 112 feet. The entire work weighs four tons. The frieze illustrates human desire for happiness in a suffering and tempestuous world in which one contends not only with external evil forces but also with internal weaknesses. The viewer follows this journey of discovery in a stunning visual and linear fashion. It begins gently with the floating female Genii searching the Earth but soon follows the dark, sinister-looking storm-wind giant, Typhoeus, his three Gorgon daughters and images representing sickness, madness, death, lust and wantonness above and to the right. Thence appears the knight in shining armour who offers hope due to his own ambition and sympathy for the pleading, suffering humans. The journey ends in the discovery of joy by means of the arts and contentment is represented in the close embrace of a kiss. Thus, the frieze expounds psychological human yearning, ultimately satisfied through individual and communal searching and the beauty of the arts coupled with love and companionship. |
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Date |
14 January 1992 date QS:P571,+1992-01-14T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Medium |
casein paint, appliqué, plaster, graphite, paint and chalk ![]() |
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Dimensions |
height: 217 cm (85.4 in) ![]() ![]() dimensions QS:P2048,+217U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+639U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q303139 |
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Place of creation |
Vienna ![]() |
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Beethoven Frieze (middle wall): The hostile forces; Typhoeus the giant, and his daughters, the three Gorgons
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14 January 1992
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