--- type: exposition title: "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/women-klimt-schiele-and-kokoschka-0" --- # The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka ![Oil on canvas 100 x 170 cm](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_445339168763.jpg.webp?itok=LHNrU_gD) **Duration:** 22 October 2015 - 28 February 2016 In the early twentieth century, the traditional relationship between the sexes was challenged by a number of social, economic, and philosophical changes. It was above all the incipient development towards gender equity that provoked vehement counter-arguments. On the other hand, sexual liberation can be seen as a common goal of men and women, since they both sought to escape the restrictive moral taboos of the nineteenth century. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka – then the three most outstanding painters of Viennese modernism – approached the subject matter generally referred to as the ‘woman question’ from slightly different, albeit overlapping perspectives. The exhibition will present an in-depth exploration of these differences and similarities. Providing insights into the relationship between the sexes in the early twentieth centuries, the show will elaborate on the origins of a modern sexual identity. ### [Lower Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/lower-belvedere) **Opening hours:** Monday to Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm **Address:** Lower Belvedere, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=3) ## Impressions - ![Oil on canvas 100 x 170 cm — Egon Schiele, The Embrace (Lovers II), 1917 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339168763_0.jpg.webp?itok=-8gmfWK4) - ![Oil on canvas 181 x 67 cm — Gustav Klimt, Goldfish, 1901/02 — © Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Dübi-Müller-Stiftung, 1980](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242663.jpg.webp?itok=55upNrm-) - ![Oil on canvas 153 x 133 cm — Gustav Klimt, Fritza Riedler, 1906 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242662.jpg.webp?itok=AHRivAUQ) - ![Oil on canvas 139.8 x 109.8 cm — Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Edith Schiele, 1918 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339168762.jpg.webp?itok=8DqC0sIo) - ![Watercolour and pencil on paper 48.2 x 28.2 cm — Egon Schiele, The Red Host, 1911 — Private Collection, © Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242660.jpg.webp?itok=4pg2Lxit) - ![Oil on paper and canvas 180 x 85 cm — Oskar Kokoschka, Standing Female Nude (Alma Mahler), 1918 — Private Collection, © Courtesy of Caroline Schmidt Fine Art LLC © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242658.jpg.webp?itok=85OBhQsb) - ![Oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm — Oskar Kokoschka, Elisabeth Reitler, 1910 l — Photo: Medienzentrum, Antje Zeis-Loi / Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242661.jpg.webp?itok=WP_T9a05) - ![Gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 47.2 x 31.5 cm — Egon Schiele, Kneeling Girls, 1911 — Private Collection, © Courtesy Richard Nagy Ltd., London](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242664.jpg.webp?itok=2-TPVH6K) - ![Gouache and black crayon on paper 29.6 x 44.2 cm — Egon Schiele, Seated Woman in Violet Stockings, 1917 — Private Collection, © Courtesy Richard Nagy Ltd., London](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886242667.jpg.webp?itok=sEa-ljup) - ![Oil on canvas 93,5 x 130,5 — Oskar Kokoschka, Lovers with cat, 1917 — Kunsthaus Zürich, © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414140.jpg.webp?itok=EsCNAtXp) - ![Watercolour, tempera and pencil on paper 44.8 x 31.5 cm — Oskar Kokoschka, Dancing young girl in a blue dress, 1908 — Private Collection, © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414136.jpg.webp?itok=XiMnzttP) - ![Oil on canvas 88 x 70 cm — Oskar Kokoschka, Martha Hirsch, 1909 — Private Collection, © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414134.jpg.webp?itok=PWBoNz0W) - ![Oil on canvas 140 x 85 cm — Gustav Klimt, Eugenia (Mäda) Primavesi, 1913/14 — © Toyota Municipal Museum of Art](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414133.jpg.webp?itok=fjxp3Fjw) - ![Oil on canvas 110.5 x 80 cm — Oskar Kokoschka, The Slave Girl, 1921 — Private Collection, © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/ Bildrecht, Vienna, 2015](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414132.jpg.webp?itok=fhCSGoeQ) - ![Gouache and black chalk on paper 150 x 159,8 cm — Egon Schiele, Mother with two children III, 1917 — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886414129.jpg.webp?itok=WolgaqNb) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167364.jpg.webp?itok=el9VoVYU) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" 2 — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167363.jpg.webp?itok=LVahN2Wr) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" 3 — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167362.jpg.webp?itok=ljFnPmYe) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" 4 — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167361.jpg.webp?itok=Cgyed_KR) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" 5 — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167360.jpg.webp?itok=pNF7SJMJ) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" 6 — Photo: Eva Würdinger, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339167359.jpg.webp?itok=G4mz6kA1) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Video Feature Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschke — © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_448452089388.jpg.webp?itok=67dVd-o_) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_448632215376.jpg.webp?itok=ddOxawrz) - ![Klimt/Schiele/Kokoschka und die Frauen — Exhibition view "The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka" — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_448632215377.jpg.webp?itok=YNYUy_tU)