A compact overview of Klimt’s life and work with artworks from all creative phases
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Gustav Klimt
The Great Masters of Art
Gustav Klimt is the one artist whose name we associate in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the “Golden Age”. As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, the portraitist of fashionable ladies and an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant terrible and the darling of Viennese society.
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The new volume in the “Masters of Art” series shows that Gustav Klimt’s complex oeuvre extends beyond his popular paintings: beginning with Klimt’s early works, whose formal language was still based on the tradition of Historicism, the author discusses Klimt’s Faculty pictures which were produced during a time when his style was changing, so that even their preliminary sketches caused a scandal. Klimt is described as a symbolic figure and a progressive artist of the Vienna Secession. Last but not least, he is shown as a magnificent illustrator and landscape painter.
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72 pages, 55 illustrations in colour
14 x 20.5 cm, hardcover
14 x 20.5 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3979-2
Categories
Art 20th Century
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Artist monographs
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Painting
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Artist Biography
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Modern Age
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Painting 20th Century
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Austria
Keywords
Painting, Viennese Secession, Art Nouveau, 19th century, 20th century, Beethoven frieze, Stoclet frieze
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