Left staircase in the Burgtheater Vienna

The Burgtheater in Vienna is an Austrian federal theater. It is considered one of the most important theaters in Europe and is the second oldest European theater after the Comédie-Française and the largest German-speaking theater.
The famous Viennese painter Gustav Klimt, together with his brother Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch, created the ceiling paintings in the two staircases of the new theater in 1886-1888. The three took on this task after similar commissions in the city theaters of Fiume and Karlovy Vary as well as in the Bucharest National Theater. In the staircase on the side of the Burgtheater facing Café Landtmann (Erzherzogstiege), Gustav Klimt depicted the artists of the Taormina Antique Theater in Sicily.