Gustav Klimt : Life and Work

by Partsch, Susanna

• ISBN13: 9781597641647
• ISBN10: 1597641642
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: New Line Books

Summary

In Vienna, at the end of the 19th century there was a surge of unprecedented artistic and intellectual creativity. Gustav Klimt was one of the foremost figures in the period, and his work has come to epitomise its style. This book has 96 color plates and 35 drawings in black-and-white, and pays tribute to the Austrian painter who died in 1918, when all Vienna mourned his death.

Table of Contents

Vienna at the turn of the century: A 'total' work of art	p. 7
The structure of Viennese society	p. 8
The Emperor's Silver Wedding Jubilee and the Makart pageant	p. 11
The Ring, and Vienna as a 'total' work of art	p. 14
Cultural life in Vienna	p. 17
Jugendstil - art nouveau - an international movement	p. 24
Antecedents	p. 24
England on the way to 'Arts and Crafts'	p. 25
The development of French painting from Impressionism to art nouveau	p. 28
One unifying concept in 'Jugendstil' painting - symbolism	p. 36
The 'total' work of art	p. 37
Klimt's early years	p. 43
Background and training	p. 43
Hans Makart - Vienna's prince of painters	p. 48
The 'Company of Artists'	p. 50
The Burg Theatre ceilings	p. 61
The murals in the stairway of the Art History Museum	p. 72
From the Ring to the Secession	p. 79
The Palais Dumba	p. 82
Founder-member and president of the 'Vienna Secession'	p. 86
Conflict among artists	p. 86
The 'heroic years' of the Secession	p. 94
Ver Sacrum	p. 97
The departure of the artists of the new style	p. 105
Klimt offends public taste	p. 108
The ceiling pictures in the great hall of the new university	p. 108
Chronology of events	p. 108
Designs and completed paintings - a comparison	p. 128
The Beethoven Frieze	p. 141
The XIVth exhibition of the Vienna Secession Max Klinger's Beethoven	p. 142
Gustav Klimt's Frieze	p. 151
Emilie Floge - couturier and companion	p. 163
The Floge Sisters' Fashion House	p. 163
Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floge	p. 183
The Vienna Workshops	p. 193
From foundation to liquidation	p. 193
Commissions and challenges	p. 204
The Art Exhibition of 1908	p. 208
The Palais Stoclet and Gustav Klimt's Frieze	p. 218
'Woman'	p. 229
The Portraits	p. 230
The 'Femme fatale'	p. 246
'Hope I'	p. 254
The drawings	p. 258
'The Kiss' - theme and variations	p. 267
Landscape painter	p. 279
Draughtsman	p. 291
Epilogue - Death and Tribute	p. 299
Appendix	p. 309
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