Litzlberger Keller

Today it is our last day of the special month with the Leopold Museum collection. We hope you liked it! We want to end it with a beautiful and calm landscape by Gustav Klimt.  Enjoy!

The close-up view of the restaurant Litzlberger Keller suggests that the work was painted from a boat. This painting commissioned by Otto Primavesi (1868–1926), however, is strongly reminiscent of the “correspondence cards” Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) sent to his friends back home in Vienna, which is why the assumption that he used such cards (or photographs) as templates for this cropped view is probably true. As he so often did in his landscapes, Klimt banished all evidence of people from the depiction, focusing only on the structure of nature and thus creating a sensitive atmospheric painting.

Otto Primavesi was a financier to the Vienna Workshop in 1914 and a keen patron and supporter of art. During the First World War he regularly invited artists, including Klimt, to stay at his country house. Otto commissioned Klimt to paint his young daughter, Mäda, and his wife, Eugenia, between 1913 and 1914. We have featured both of these paintings before; please check our Archive to enjoy them.

Here is an interesting fact ... The Litzlberger Keller, a former beer warehouse from the late 18th century, is still open and available for guests. 

P.S. Here you can explore the unknown world of Klimt's landscapes <3

P.P.S. If you love Gustav Klimt as much as we do, please check our high-quality print with one if his most known works, The Kiss.