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Gustav Klimt
The Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is the most important representative of the Viennese Art Nouveau school. He was one of the founders of the Vienne Secession, and its artistic director from 1897 to 1905. Women are the works of Gustav Klimt. He almost always uses the female form to transport his artistic message in the allegorical paintings. While his portraits of women are both typical for his style and true to life, the artist strips his idealised figures of all individual characteristics and incidental elements. With decorative lines, forms and shapes he presents the results of his analysis: the seesence of femininity.
Almost a quarter of Klimt’s works are landscape paintings. Characteristic for these works is the fundamental division between man and landscape: landscapes play almost no part in his portraits, even as backgrounds. Conversely, there is no room for human beings in his landscape paintings. Even human elements such as houses and gardens are mere ornaments that merge with the natural settings. Klimt views nature as a cosmos independent of mankind.
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Photographer: Josef Bieker
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This Product was added to our catalogue on 27/11/2008.