--- type: exposition title: "Say it with Flowers!" language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/say-it-flowers-0" --- # Say it with Flowers! ## Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt ![Sag's durch die Blume!](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_499086563023.jpg.webp?itok=eaXvFnVN) **Duration:** 22 June 2018 - 30 September 2018 **From the opulent bouquet to the native thistle to Klimt’s sunflower: in the space of a century, flower painting underwent an enormous transformation. The centre was Vienna, where in the nineteenth century flower painting achieved unrivalled diversity and significance.** The first heyday of flower painting was in the Biedermeier period with its magnificent arrangements of flowers. It surged again at the end of the century, especially in the work of the women artists Olga Wisinger-Florian and Marie Egner. The genre opened a way for women into the art world. And finally Vienna’s modernist artists, like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, included floral motifs in their work in their own highly unique ways. Flower pictures reveal much more than the history of artistic styles. They tell of social change, the delight in exotic plants and native Alpine flora, the splendour of the Ringstrasse era and the fragility of humankind. The exhibition encompasses works from a period spanning from the late eighteenth through to the early twentieth century and, in addition to paintings, also includes porcelain and sculpture. A selection of contemporary artworks further enriches the show. Featuring works by Jan van Huysum, Rachel Ruysch, Josef Klieber, Joseph Nigg, Franz Xaver Petter, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling, Rosalia Amon, Anton Romako, Hans Makart, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Tina Blau, Carl Schuch, Marie Egner, Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Michael Powolny, Egon Schiele, and Willem de Rooij. Curator: Rolf H. Johannsen \#VienneseFlowerPainting ## Impressions - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Gustav Klimt, Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen, 1907 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563023_0.jpg.webp?itok=12XdcIgZ) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Gustav Klimt, Sonnenblume, 1907/1908 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563025.jpg.webp?itok=wufpr-Jz) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Olga Wisinger-Florian, Blühender Mohn, um 1895/1900 — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563024.jpg.webp?itok=URD5sLat) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Josef Lauer, Blumenstillleben, 1839 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563022.jpg.webp?itok=EQA_V0Cs) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Pauline Koudelka-Schmerling, Blumenkranz mit Madonnenrelief, 1834 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563021.jpg.webp?itok=LuqE6YMc) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Stillleben mit Früchten, Blumen und silbernem Pokal, 1839 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086563020.jpg.webp?itok=0kjFKf5W) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Franz Xaver Gruber, Blumenstück, um 1838 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849600930.jpg.webp?itok=_eCpXGBc) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Johann Baptist Drechsler, Blumenstillleben, 1786 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849600933.jpg.webp?itok=vIGCBcz3) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Egon Schiele, Picture of Dr. Franz Martin Haberditzl, 1917 — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849601189.jpg.webp?itok=dFQlniWZ) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Willem de Rooij, Bouquet V — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849601192.jpg.webp?itok=k29qDgcE) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Franz Werner Tamm, Stillleben mit Meerschweinchen, Blumen und Früchten, um 1720/1724 — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849601185.jpg.webp?itok=ccEyzB1V) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Exhibition view "Say it with Flowers! Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt" — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849609356.jpg.webp?itok=RkKQVKX6) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger © Belvedere Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801166271.jpg.webp?itok=XBkx5lFU) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger © Belvedere Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801166272.jpg.webp?itok=7_6ZJTjl) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Photo: Sandro Zanzinger © Belvedere Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_529801166273.jpg.webp?itok=LBczmH5c) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Exhibition view "Say it with Flowers! Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt" — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849609357.jpg.webp?itok=547C7wRz) - ![Sag's durch die Blume! — Exhibition view "Say it with Flowers! Viennese Flower Painting from Waldmüller to Klimt" — Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_526849609352.jpg.webp?itok=e5gAh1vr)