Queuing for Klimt and Liebermann Photo: Ralf Guenther
By Sebastian Bauer
The “Secessions” exhibition, including a world-famous painting by Gustav Klimt, is becoming a crowd puller.
This is what exhibition organizers dream of! There is currently a considerable queue of visitors on the Museum Island. Her goal: the show “Secessions” in the Old National Gallery, including paintings by the painter stars Klimt, Stuck and Liebermann.
The BZ learned from the museum that 1,400 people flocked to the show for the opening last weekend. Now it’s about 1000 a day. Visitors should plan to wait half an hour. Or, they get an online ticket. Then they can walk past the people waiting.
The interest in the exhibition is reminiscent of the legendary MoMA queue from 2004, when art lovers waited around the New National Gallery to be admitted. At that time, the New York Museum of Modern Art attracted over a million people with a guest performance of its highlights.
The people who stand in line are probably most interested in the art of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), including his major work “Judith” (1901), which was designed with gold leaf. Until October 22nd there is time to break the million MoMA visitor count from back then.