Gustav Klimt - Hardcover

Whitford, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855851520 ISBN 13: 9781855851528

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1993

Synopsis

This is the first of a series in which each book uses closely-integrated text and pictures to place an artist in his own time and place, and to recreate the atmosphere and texture of the world he inhabited. Gustav Klimt, the celebrated painter of fin-de-siecle Vienna, produced portraits of society women, allegorical figure-compositions and sumptuous decorative schemes which evoke the exciting decadent atmosphere of one of Europe's great cities before World War I. Vienna was being transformed - physically, socially and intellectually - by influential personalities such as Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil and Gustav Mahler, and Klimt was at the heart of its intense cultural life. Klimt's work is seen to be inseparable from his intimate personal experience and his social and artistic milieu. His own paintings, letters and diaries, interspersed with observations by his contemporaries, are interwoven with narrative text to tell the story of his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1855851520
• ISBN 13: 9781855851528
• Binding: Hardcover