Klimt: Masters of Art Wenzel Angela
From decorative arts to erotica to gold-leaf paintings--discover the phenomenal career of fin-de-si cle Vienna's most acclaimed painter.The glowing, gold-leafed sensuality of The Kiss, the monumental…
Specifikacia Klimt: Masters of Art Wenzel Angela
From decorative arts to erotica to gold-leaf paintings--discover the phenomenal career of fin-de-si cle Vienna's most acclaimed painter.The glowing, gold-leafed sensuality of The Kiss, the monumental and allegoric Beethoven Frieze, the symbolic power of Death and Life--these are some of the works that illustrate the breadth of Klimt's enormous talent. This accessible guide to the Viennese painter places his work in the context of turn-of-the-century Vienna's vibrantly artistic, but politically unstable, environment. Angela Wenzel traces Klimt's early years designing grand interiors throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including the now-destroyed Faculty Paintings in the Great Hall at the University of Vienna. Readers will learn about Klimt's co-founding of the Vienna Secession; his lifechanging travels to the basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna; his departure from
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