Avenue in the Park of Krammer Castle

Avenue in the Park of Kammer Castle (1912)

Gustav Klimt painted Avenue in the Park of Krammer Castle in 1912. As such, it is among the later works of Gustav Klimt, done in the time after his association with the Vienna Secession and after his Golden Period. The painting depicts the tree lined avenue leading down to Kammer Castle. The trees and green at the top though their naked brown limps are very visible further down. At the end of the avenue we see the yellow building of Castle Kammer. The castle is covered by a red roof.

The painting is somewhat unusual for Klimt in that there is a lack of obvious symbols in the painting. While some meaning could be laid in the way the naked arms of the trees reach up, the painting is in fact a much more traditional paintings that earlier works of Klimt. It is a landscape depiction of the road leading to the castle. Indeed, aside from the lack of heavy brush strokes, it is almost Van Gogh like in its depiction, and offers more of a post-impressionistic angle than in most other works by Klimt.

Avenue in the Park of Kammer Castle can today be found at the Belvedere in Vienna.