Gustav Klimt

Summary: Gustav Klimt was born in Austria in 1862 and spent his working life in Vienna, a city whose artistic chaos made it an extraordinary place to live. In his early career he received a public commission to paint a series of frescos, and received the "Gold Cross for Artistic Merit" for his Burgtheater murals. However, his name is most enduringly linked to the Viennese Secession. This revolutionary movement separated itself definitively from public, academic art. The atmosphere of Klimt's Nuda Veritas could be likened to the slow languor of Strauss's operas or to the theatre productions of Schnitzler.

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ISBN: 1780422946 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781780422947 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)
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Publisher: New York : Parkstone International, 2011.

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Formatted Contents Note:	PORTRAIT OF FRIEDERIKE MARIA BEERDEATH AND LIFE; GIRLFRIENDS; ADAM AND EVE, (UNFINISHED); THE DANCER; THE BRIDE; Klimt 1862-1918: Biography; Klimt 1862-1918: Index of Works.
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