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The store is located in red brick buildings dating to before the Civil War. 631 South Third Street once housed Maurer's Saloon and a nickelodeon movie theater called the Lily Cinema. [ 6 ] [ 12 ] Living quarters were located on the second floor of what was known as the Substantial Building, which would go on to serve as a church, a decorating ...
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]
Gustav Klimt’s romantic portrait “Dame mit Fächer” (Lady with a Fan) established a new record for the artist and became the most expensive artwork to ever sell in a European auction.
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 ...
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 ...
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