Klimt vs. Klimt — The Man of Contradictions is a comprehensive hub about Gustav Klimt’s art, life and legacy. The online retrospective brings together over 30 partners and institutions from 10+ countries. Neue Galerie New York is very proud to participate with a story on Klimt's extraordinary Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907).

The exhibition features an immersive Augmented Reality Pocket Gallery, which digitally organizes sixty-three of Klimt’s masterworks under a single roof. Audiences can virtually walk the halls of the gallery space at scale and zoom in on the paintings’ fine ornamentation and pattern, characteristic of Klimt’s practice, made possible by the digitization of his iconic artworks in ultra-high resolution.

In support of bringing Klimt’s work to life, Google Arts & Culture also employed machine learning to digitally reconstruct Klimt’s long-lost Faculty Paintings which were destroyed by fire in 1945. Pulling from archival data and scholarly research, AI technology recolored images of the works, documented only in black and white photographs, revealing a rich and saturated color palette—a result surprising even to Klimt scholars.

Following years of archival research, the app also features over 100 thematic tours comprised of unfinished sketches, videos, and digitized ephemera, many of which are available online for the first time. Brazenly erotic, politically charged, and artistically revolutionary, “Klimt and the Erotic” explores the artists admiration for women, and a deep dive into “Klimt’s Golden Phase,” the unmistakable hallmark that earned him a permanent place in art history.