Klimt & Schiele: Gold, Desire & the Shock of the Modern

Vienna at the turn of the 20th century was a city of contradictions — opulent yet anxious, glittering yet fractured. In this charged atmosphere, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele forged two of the most distinctive artistic voices of modernity.

Klimt dazzled the world with shimmering gold, eroticism and symbolism, creating icons of sensual beauty that scandalised polite society. Schiele, in contrast, stripped the human body to its rawest truth: twisted poses, burning eyes, a psychological intensity still startling today.

Together they reveal a world on the brink—where beauty and danger meet, and where modern art begins to confront the deepest questions of identity, sexuality and the self.