Klimt Villa
Klimt Villa (i.e. Villa Werner) is a building located in the Hietzing Districts of Vienna, district of Vienna built in the early 1920s upon the last Viennese studio of the painter Gustav Klimt. The association of the term ''villa'' with the name ''Klimt'' is ahistorical but has served since to promote the preservation of the building since the 1990s. Klimt did not live in a two-storey, upper-class villa but rather in an unadorned, single-storey country cottage. History Klimt's atelier Building research by Helmut and Heide Buschhausen, Mario Schwarz and Gerhard Weißenbacher has proven that Gustav Klimt's last atelier (studio), used from 1911/1912 to 1918, was incorporated as the ground floor of the present two-storey building at the address Feldmühlgasse 11 (formerly Feldmühlgasse 9 and Wittegasse 15). In the summer of 1998, further research by Herbert Rasinger and Gerhard Weissenbacher conclusive proof is provided. A considerable part of the controversy over the sale and ...
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