With the Tree of Life Grand Piano from our Collector’s Item Artist Series, we honor Gustav Klimt not only as one of the most important Austrian painters. With his interdisciplinary works and their ancient oriental, early Christian and East Asian influences, Klimt was already in his own lifetime an artist of world renown.

Seit der Gründung der Manufaktur entwarfen immer wieder berühmte Architekten Flügel für Bösendorfer. Das Modell Secession ist der erste Flügel der Architecture Series.

Jean Cocteau Bösendorfer Artist Series. Ein Visionär, seiner Zeit voraus. Jean Cocteau, Schriftsteller, Designer Autor, Maler und Filmemacher, und Zeitgenosse Picassos. Zum 66. Geburstag vom Menton Musik Festival designen wir den Bösendorfer Cocteau Limited Edition.

The use of different types of wood for designing ornaments as well as flower and animal motives has always been a symbol of extravagance and luxury, as evidenced by the majority of historic furniture and pianos decorated with precious inlaid work. Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, passionately collected plants for their magnificent gardens and monumental greenhouses. The empress turned Schönbrunn Palace into an imperial summer residence and the glamorous heart of life at the court. Leading statesmen and major personalities from the world of art and culture were guests at the palace. Schönbrunn’s Baroque garden was a grand representation of the court and a continuation of the impressive interior projected to the outside world. The painter Johann Wenzel Bergl, famous in the 18th century, decorated several of the rooms on the ground floor with plant and animal motives that reveal a love for detail. The nature-loving Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) also delighted in the magnificent gardens and mural paintings in her later years. To this day, the rooms designed by Bergl remain among the palace’s three most sumptuous room ensembles. This instrument is an homage to the magnificent gardens and mural paintings of imperial luxury and an enchanting snapshot of nature. Limited to 18 Model 200 grand pianos in polished black, each instrument from this series is given an individually numbered brass plaque.

This Beethoven proclamation adorns the right shelf of the music stand likewise in mother-of-pearl. The Grand Piano Beethoven Edition from the Bösendorfer Artist Series is limited to an edition of 15 pianos, each with an individually numbered plaque on the key block.