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Gustav Klimt: Painter of Women Paperback – August 25, 2012

by Susanna Partsch (Author)

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The enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene, Klimt was notorious for his portraits of beautiful women. Illustrated with color reproductions, this book profiles the women who figured in the artist’s life and on his canvases. The author looks beyond the standard assumption that Klimt was a hardhearted philanderer, pointing instead to his committed and loving relationship with Emilie Flöge that prevailed despite the parade of beautiful women who wandered in and out of the artist’s studio. Partsch demonstrates Klimt’s role in the evolution of portrait painting, which helped usher in the age of Expressionism.

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The enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene, Klimt was notorious for his portraits of beautiful women. Illustrated with color reproductions, this book profiles the women who figured in the artist's life and on his canvases. The author looks beyond the standard assumption that Klimt was a hardhearted philanderer, pointing instead to his committed and loving relationship with Emilie Flöge that prevailed despite the parade of beautiful women who wandered in and out of the artist's studio.

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The enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene, Klimt was notorious for his portraits of beautiful women. Illustrated with color reproductions, this book profiles the women who figured in the artist's life and on his canvases. The author looks beyond the standard assumption that Klimt was a hardhearted philanderer, pointing instead to his committed and loving relationship with Emilie Flöge that prevailed despite the parade of beautiful women who wandered in and out of the artist's studio.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prestel; Annotated edition (August 25, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3791347519
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3791347516
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.17 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.69 x 0.38 x 10.88 inches

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Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase," many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele.
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Jim H

Fascinating & True

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2016

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Everyone should read this intriguing tale. Went immediately to te Neue Gallery in NYC to view the exhibit, fascinating beyond words.

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Evgeny Potapov MD

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If you like Klimt this is a good book

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013

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I was looking for a basic book about Gustav to take to a book club. This had a good selection of his work.

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Yvonne Wynkoop Bailey

Good Value

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2011

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This book was a good value for the low price. It gives a fair bit of info on the artist that I wasn't aware of and highlights some of his more familiar works. A nice intro to a more elaborate volume.

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James Woollett

A must reas for all art fans

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2015

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Wonderful" It gave details on historical context as well as his paintings, with pictures.

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2016

Lovely book.

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013

I was always indifferent to the paintings of Gustav Klimt until I saw the actual paintings at an exhibit in New York at the Neue Gallery. The one's I saw (such as the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer) are quite large (138 by 138 cm). So the reproductions that one sees in an art book are a significant condensation of the actual work. The details visible in these large canvases are brilliant and certainly make Gustav Klimt a very unique artist with a distinctive use of colour patterns.

There are a good range of paintings in this book - all of women. But unfortunately none of his landscapes (the title says so!). These paintings are extraordinary in that in addition to the wonderful colours the women just seem to be floating. They are surrounded by textured panoplies of beautiful quilt-like designs. These colourations elaborate the sensuousness of the paintings.

The text in this book is somewhat disappointing. There are basically abrupt discussions of the models that Klimt used. It would seem that Klimt believed in free-love and this was more or less kept hidden after his death. He had children with several different women who were his models. Some of these women were very wealthy, but others less so. We are not given anything revealing on what inspired Klimt and I came out of this book with very little knowledge of Klimt's life.

But the reproductions in this book make me enthusiastic to know far more about this artist and this brought my evaluation to 4 stars.

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