12.04.2024 – 29.09.2024
The Belvedere has the world’s largest closed collection of paintings by Maulbertsch. Following extensive restoration work, the artist’s works can once again be experienced in all their detail and delicate colouring.
To mark the 300th anniversary of Franz Anton Maulbertsch’s birth, the Belvedere is dedicating an exhibition to the artist’s work in the IM BLICK series. Maulbertsch was one of the artists from the circle of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna who broke with convention around 1750 and cultivated an expressive style. He himself developed into a formative figure in the painting of the second half of the 18th century in Central Europe. His early works are characterized by a dramatic chiaroscuro and human figures whose expressiveness sometimes tipped over into the grotesque. He attracted particular attention in clerical circles, which resulted in numerous commissions to decorate churches and monasteries with frescoes and altarpieces.
IM BLICK: Franz Anton Maulbertsch
12.04.2024 – 29.09.2024
Belvedere Vienna
Oberes Belvedere
Prinz Eugen-Straße 27
1030 Vienna
www.belvedere.at
