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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 ...
[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]
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]
[8] [9] In 1891, Helene, one of Emilie's two older sisters, married Ernst Klimt, the brother of Gustav Klimt. When Ernst died in December 1892, Gustav was made Helene's guardian. At that time Emilie was eighteen years old and Gustav became a frequent guest at the home of her parents, spending the summers with the Flöge family at Lake Attersee. [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 ...
Altmann's uncle, Czech sugar magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, owned a small collection of artwork by Gustav Klimt, including two portraits of his wife, Adele Bloch-Bauer.In her will, Adele, who died in 1925, had asked her husband to leave the Klimts to the Austrian State Gallery upon his death; a much-debated point later was whether this request should be considered legally binding upon her ...
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