Gustav KlimtThis beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to the world of Gustav Klimt, a gifted and controversial artist determined to live life to the full during Vienna's golden era, the early decades of the 20th century. A world of great art, literature, and music, of heady successes and bitter failures, of lasting friendships and passionate affairs. Sumptuous, elegant, and often intensely erotic, his images of this world scandalized his contemporaries. Today they are among the most famous - and most valuable - images of modern art. Book jacket. |
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20th century Adele Bloch-Bauer allegories Alma Anna Art Nouveau Arthur Schnitzler Arts and Crafts became Beethoven Frieze Belvedere beside the Attersee Burgtheater Carl Moll color commissions creativity decorative depictions designed Egon Schiele Emilie and Gustav Emilie Flöge erotic exhibition faculty pictures fascinated fashion salon femmes fatales figure fin-de-siècle fire in Schloss Franz Matsch Frida Kahlo garden Gold Period Gustav Klimt Hans Makart Helene Hermann Bahr Immendorf in 1945 Josef Hoffmann Joseph Maria Olbrich Kiss Klimt and Emilie Klimt painted Klimt's death Klimt's pictures Klimt's studio Kokoschka Künstler Compagnie landscapes look Makart Maria married Mizzi Zimmermann models mother nude oil on canvas ornamentation Österreichische Galerie painter photograph Portrait of Adele postcards Prestel private collection Raoul Ruiz relationship Salvador Dalí Schloss Immendorf Secession Building Secessionists sexual sisters society ladies Stoclet Frieze style symbol theater Vienna Secession Viennese society wanted Wien Museum woman women York