Gustav Kilmt - Medicine

Question 1

What materials was medicine created in?

Answer 1

Oil paint on canvas

Question 2

When was medicine destroyed?

Answer 2

1945

Question 3

How, and where was medicine destroyed?

Answer 3

By fire at Immendorf Castle in southern Austria by SS forces to stop the painting falling into enemy hands.

Question 4

Who quoted “ Medicine is a mans struggle to break away from parturition and death, the suffering of life and the finality of death, and the unwillingness to accept that every birth is merely a death sentence.”

Answer 4

Tina Marlowe - Storkovich

Question 5

Why was medicine controversial?

Answer 5

It showed medicine as a strange mix of symbols and skeletons in an almost pornographic manor, rather than showing medicine as curing and helping people.

Question 6

The mistletoe the bowl and the serpent are conventional attributes that identify the figure in the lower foreground as…

Answer 6

Hygeia

Question 7

Who is hygeia?

Answer 7

Daughter of God of medicine Asciepius

Question 8

What is hygeia the goddess of?

Answer 8

Health, cleanliness and hygiene.

Question 9

What do the nude figures represent?

Answer 9

The river of life

Question 10

What did the agreement for the canvas require that it included?

Answer 10

A large central canvas representing the enlightenment theme of light over darkness.
4 encompassing pictures to personify the faculties of the university

Question 11

What were the faculties of the university?

Answer 11

Philosophy medicine jurisprudence (law) and theology

No picture produced for theology only the other 3.

Question 12

Where was the painting to be placed?

Answer 12

Ceiling painting to go in the graduation hall at the university of Vienna.

Question 13

Why was the painting not suitable for display at the university.

Answer 13

It was deemed to be excessively perverted and pornographic

Question 14

What size was medicine?

Answer 14

430x300 cm

Question 15

What is the Vienna secession?

Answer 15

A group of artists who broke away (seceded) from the association of Austrian artists

Question 16

When did the Vienna secession take place?

Answer 16

1897

Question 17

Which artists did the Vienna secession include?

Answer 17

Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann

Question 18

Why is the image of medicine in black and white?

Answer 18

The original was destroyed in a fire and only a photo taken just before medicine was destroyed remains.

Question 19

Where was medicine and other works requested for in 1904?

Answer 19

The Lousianna purchase exposition - but the paintings were declined

Question 20

When did medicine come into property of a Jewish family?

Answer 20

1911

Question 21

When was the painting seized by Germany?

Answer 21

1938

Question 22

Gustav Kilmt was associated with art movement?

Answer 22

Art nouveau

Question 23

What is art nouveau?

Answer 23

Decorative art, architecture, design prominent in Western Europe and USA. Characterised by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms. Aimed at modernising designs and and escaping the varied historical styles that had previously been popular.

Question 24

When did art nouveau start and finish?

Answer 24

1896-1914 (ww1)

Question 25

Why were the faculty paintings attacked by critics?

Answer 25

Because the paintings broke cultural taboos and contradicted the trends of the era “ to channel reality and only present its more favourable aspects.” -(neret)

Question 26

Name 3 things to show the time period of 1900 was a time of change?

Answer 26

Kodak launches brownie box camera for $1, Le Metro underground opens in Paris and CocaCola comes to Europe.

Question 27

Who was medicine produced by?

Answer 27

Gustav Klimt

Question 28

When was medicine created?

Answer 28

1900 -1907