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Klimt (Paperback, Reissue)
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Klimt (Paperback, Reissue)
Series: Colour library
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Loot Price R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
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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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