Exhibition poster (censored state)
by KLIMT, Gustav, Colour lithograph, 970 x 700 mm
This lithograph is the poster for the first Secession Exhibition held in 1898 in Vienna.
Accusations of pornography were made against Klimt from the earliest days of the Secession. His poster for the society’s first exhibition fell foul of the Viennese censor, who demanded that a tree be strategically placed in front of what was originally a nude figure of Theseus fighting the Minotaur.