Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Better World Books Indiana: Goshen and Mishawaka: 2002–2019: Boxcar Books Indiana: Bloomington: 2001–2017: Iron Rail Book Collective Louisiana: New Orleans: 2003–2014: Anarchist: Daedalus Books Maryland: Columbia: 1980–2011: Greetings & Readings Maryland: Hunt Valley: 1969–2019: Victor Kamkin Bookstore Maryland: Rockville: 1953–2002 ...
Klimt was known for his portraiture of women and his fascination with the depiction of female sexuality. [4] Twenty years after Klimt's death, nearing the end of the Second World War, Germany annexed Austria in 1938, thus bringing to a halt private collecting of the arts. Dispossessed along with many other Austrian art, sculpture, and cultural ...
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in the Austrian Empire, and was second of seven children—three boys and four girls. [5] His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. [6]
Lady with a Fan (German: Dame mit Fächer) was the final portrait created by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. [1] Painted in 1917, the uncommissioned piece depicting an unidentified woman was on an easel in his studio when he died in 1918. [2] Like many of Klimt's late works, it incorporates strong Asian influences including many Chinese ...
Many feminist bookstores were collectively run by boards of women in a non-hierarchical structure. This was an anti-capitalist business model in line with second-wave feminists' belief that system change was needed in order to create meaningful change in women's lives. [10] Magic Speller Bookstore
[1] [4] Klimt may have introduced her to Altenberg, who was part of his inner circle of friends and admirers. [4] After Klimt died in February 1918, Altenberg inscribed a eulogy on a drawing that Klimt had made of Staude, and later wrote that she was a "modern saint" for helping to care for him during his last year of life. [4] [1]
A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction estimate.. The “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” thought to be one ...
Water Serpents II, also referred to as Wasserschlangen II, is an oil painting made in 1907 by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. It is the follow-up painting to the earlier painting Water Serpents I. Like the first painting, Water Serpents II deals with the sensuality of women's bodies and same-sex relationships. The painting has a rich history.