Gustav Klimt’s ’After the Rain’ debuts in new exhibition
Gustav Klimt’s ’After the Rain’ debuts in new exhibition
2025-12-25
A new exhibition is now on view at the National Museum of History. This special showcase is a collaboration between Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and the National Museum of History, featuring more than 60 flower-themed works spanning from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Among the highlights is Gustav Klimt’s original masterpiece "After the Rain," presented for the very first time in Taiwan. FTV reporter Stephany Yang has the details.
One of the centerpiece works is Gustav Klimt’s "After the Rain." This Taipei exhibition marks the first occasion that original pieces from the Belvedere’s collection are being displayed in Taiwan.
Besides After the Rain, the exhibition also features a room with an immersive multimedia installation. This interactive presentation highlights Klimt’s artistic journey, showcasing a selection of his works while illustrating his creative process. Visitors can step into a vivid, multisensory environment that brings Klimt’s techniques and inspirations to life, offering deeper insight into how his masterpieces were conceived and produced.
Lin Juei-tang
National Museum of History research assistant
We think this is a very rare opportunity to show this work, and we want to introduce all aspects of his art so besides displaying his "After the Rain," we also designed a multi-media experience so that the audience can enjoy and understand the process of Klimt’s creation and how he created art.
Other notable works include pieces by Johann Knapp, one of Austria’s most renowned flower painters at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Over his career, Knapp produced thousands of watercolor studies of plants. On display here is his celebrated work "Homage to Jacquin."
Lin Juei-tang
National Museum of History research assistant
This is a work that substantially embodies the relationship between art and science at that time. In the early 18th century, you can see that the development of flower painting in Vienna is closely related to the nobility’s interest in developing biology and scientific exploration, so in this work, we see that actually, Jacquin is a biologist working in Vienna. In this work, we see that the artist Johann Knapp includes lots of flowers, mushrooms, and even exotic animals.
Another featured artist is Johann Baptist Drechsler, regarded as one of the most influential flower painters and educators in Austria during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Lin Juei-tang
National Museum of History research assistant
We see the traditional pot and flowers are really arranged in kind of a natural background. We see the trees and sky. These are actually rarely seen in previous flower paintings. We think that this actually represents a very important tradition of flower painting that they are moving from indoors gradually to outdoors.
To commemorate the National Museum of History’s 70th anniversary, Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and the National Museum of History in Taipei collaborated to host an exhibition. The exhibition spans 200 years of European art history. Visitors can trace the evolution of styles from Baroque, Romanticism, and Impressionism to the beginnings of Modernism.
Lin Juei-tang
National Museum of History research assistant
Throughout the years, the National Museum of History has introduced to the audience in Taiwan the great works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet, we want to expand the vision of Taiwan’s audience by introducing these flower paintings from Vienna because we think that flower paintings and still life are something that Taiwan’s audience are maybe not so familiar with. Through this exhibition, we are trying to show the more than 200 years of history of this kind of genre that has developed in central Europe.
The exhibition will run at the National Museum of History until March 22.
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綻放 維也納美景宮百年花繪名作展 國立歷史博物館展出
2025-12-25
奧地利國寶級美術館與國立歷史博物館聯合舉辦了一場展覽，集結維也納美景宮60 件花卉藝術真跡，橫跨18世紀至20世紀初作品，更帶來奧地利象徵主義大師古斯塔夫・克林姆，"雨後"作品真跡。
其中一個核心展品是克林姆真跡"雨後"。這次台北展覽是貝爾維德宮館藏真跡首次在台灣展出。
除了"雨後"之外，展覽還設有沉浸式多媒體裝置展廳。這個互動式展廳著重展現了古斯塔夫•克林姆特的藝術歷程，不僅展出了他的一些作品，也探討了他的創作過程。參觀者可以步入一個生動逼真的多感官環境，親身感受古斯塔夫•克林姆特的技法和靈感來源，從而更深入地了解他的傑作是如何構思和創作的。
[[國立歷史博物館研究助理 林瑞堂]]
"我們認為這是一個非常難得的機會，來展示這件作品，我們希望介紹他藝術的各個方面，因此除了展出他的”雨後”之外，我們還設計了一個多媒體體驗，讓觀眾能夠欣賞和了解克林姆特的創作過程"
其他值得關注的作品包括約翰•納普的作品，他是18世紀末19世紀初奧地利最著名的花卉畫家之一。約翰•納普一生創作了數千幅植物水彩畫。這次展出的便是他的名作Homage to Jacquin。
[[國立歷史博物館研究助理 林瑞堂]]
"這件作品充分體現了當時藝術與科學之間的關係。18世紀初，維也納花卉繪畫的發展與貴族對生物學和科學探索的興趣密切相關。在這件作品中，我們可以看出，Jacquin其實是一位在維也納工作的生物學家。藝術家約翰•納普在這件作品中描繪了大量的花卉、蘑菇，甚至還有一些稀有動物"
另一位參展藝術家是巴普蒂斯特•德雷斯勒，他被認為是18世紀末，19世紀初，奧地利最有影響力的花卉畫家和教育家之一。
[[國立歷史博物館研究助理 林瑞堂]]
"我們看到傳統的花盆和花卉被巧妙地融入自然的背景中。樹木和天空清晰可見，這在以往的花卉繪畫中實屬罕見。我們認為這實際上代表了花卉繪畫中一個非常重要的傳統，逐漸從室內走向室外"
為紀念國立歷史博物館成立70週年，奧地利國寶級美術館與國立歷史博物館聯合舉辦了一場展覽。展覽涵蓋了200年的歐洲藝術史，參觀者可以追溯從巴洛克、浪漫主義、印象派到現代主義萌芽時期的藝術風格演變。
[[國立歷史博物館研究助理 林瑞堂]]
"多年來，國立歷史博物館向台灣觀眾介紹了畢卡索、梵谷和莫內等大師的傑作，但我們希望透過介紹維也納的花卉畫作，來拓展台灣觀眾的視野，因為我們認為台灣觀眾可能對花卉畫和靜物畫不太熟悉。透過此次展覽，我們希望展現這一繪畫流派在中歐兩百多年的發展歷程"
展覽將在國家歷史博物館展出至3月22日。
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