Apart from Klimt, also works by Koloman Moser, Karl Moll and Croatian artists Vlaho Bukovac, Tomislav Krizman and Ivana Mestrovic will be put on display.
"The exhibition The Challenge of Modernity: Zagreb – Vienna in about 1900 will be the first time works by Secession painters, sculptors and architects from Zagreb and Vienna will be shown together. The exhibition will enable viewers to compare works by Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and Karl Moll with works by Vlaho Bukovac, Tomislav Krizman, Ivan Mestrovic and many others," according to the gallery's web site.
"It will allow them to make revealing comparisons between architects from Vienna and Zagreb based on works by Otto Wagner, Josef Hofmann and Adolf Loos on the one hand, and Vjekoslav Bastl, Aladar Baranyai and Viktor Kovacic on the other."
"The exhibition will show the rise of a new generation of women painters who became equal participants in modern changes. Antonija Krasnik and Nasta Rojc studied painting in Vienna, and Slava Raskaj also developed under the influence of Vienna Secession. The different fields of art are used to examine themes shared by cultural life in Vienna and Zagreb at the turn of the century: the meaning of human existence, landscapes instilled with the artist’s subjective experiencing of nature, cafés as new forums for the exchange of ideas, and the portrayal of women as the supreme motif of the period."