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Klimt (Paperback, Reissue) Loot Price: R372
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Klimt (Paperback, Reissue): Catherine Dean

Klimt (Paperback, Reissue)

Catherine Dean

Series: Colour library

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Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most brilliant artists of the Austrian avant-garde. Admired for his sensual images of women and for his powerful and original vision, he produced some of the most haunting and evocative images of all time, including The Kiss, Love and The Three Ages of Woman, all of which are included in this perfect introduction to the artist's work. Klimt started out as a decorator, opening a studio with his brother Ernst. Some of his most famous commissions were for murals, including the magnificent Beethoven Frieze, painted for the exhibition of Max Klinger's statue of Beethoven, and the monumental ceiling paintings for the auditorium of Vienna University, which shocked a conservative public. A founder of Vienna Secession, the band of artists who resigned from the established art bodies to form their own group, Klimt became the principal painter of the Art Nouveau movement, painting glittering portraits of fashionable Viennese society as well as

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Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Colour library
Release date: August 1998
First published: May 1996
Authors: Catherine Dean
Dimensions: 305 x 225 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-3377-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Art Nouveau
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Design styles > Art Deco
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
LSN: 0-7148-3377-0
Barcode: 9780714833774

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