Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater
Gustav Klimt (1888–1889)
<strong>Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater</strong> turns the stage around: the audience becomes the show beneath a glowing chandelier and sweeping tiers. Klimt fuses hundreds of individualized faces into a single, wave‑like body of spectators, lit by gaslight and framed by gilded medallions. The result is a civic mirror—Vienna watching itself—at the very moment its old theater was disappearing.
