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Gustav Klimt - The Complete Paintings
Tobias G. Natter
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Description for Gustav Klimt - The Complete Paintings
Hardcover. During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high; he stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized and divided the art-loving world. This is a work of Gustav Klimt scholarship that revisits his work in the context of his contemporaries. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), plans, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 460 x 310 x 70. Weight in Grams: 7820.
During his lifetime, Gustav Klimt was a controversial star whose works made passions run high. He stood for Modernism but he also embodied tradition. His pictures polarized and divided the art-loving world. The press and general public alike were split over the question: For or against Klimt? This monograph explores Klimt's oeuvre with particular emphasis upon such contemporary voices. With a complete catalogue of his paintings, including new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this book, it examines the reactions to Klimt's work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt's portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting. The theory that Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is also dispelled with the inclusion of 179 letters, cards, writings, and other documents from the artist.Contributing authors: Evelyn Benesch, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Rainald Franz, Anette Freytag, Christoph Grunenberg, Hansjoerg Krug, Susanna Partsch, Angelina Poetschner, and Michaela Reichel
Product Details
Publisher
Benedikt Taschen Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
676
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836527958
SKU
V9783836527958
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About Tobias G. Natter
The editor and author: Tobias G. Natter studied art history and history at the universities of Innsbruck, Munich, and Vienna. He worked at the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna for fifteen years. From 2001-2002 he was curator of the Neue Galerie in New York. From 2006 to 2011 he directed the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz and was responsible for the museum's new premises and the reorganization of the collection. Since October 2011 he is the director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. His extensive publications and his conception and organisation of exhibitions on the theme of Vienna around 1900 have made him an internationally acknowledged expert on Viennese art at the turn of the century.Contributing authors: Evelyn Benesch, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Rainald Franz, Anette Freytag, Christoph Grunenberg, Hansjorg Krug, Susanna Partsch, Angelina Potschner and Michaela Reichel
Reviews for Gustav Klimt - The Complete Paintings
Guaranteed to work up a fervour. Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings is a grand production in every way: the most comprehensive book on Klimt's art, the most up-to-date information, the most profuse detail illustrations and the most carefully designed book on its topic. Its grand size matches the ambition of its publisher. The reprinting of this lavish book once again makes available a publication that is both attractive and a serious piece of scholarship and analysis. Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings is a magnificent publishing achievement and allows the ordinary person to come as close to possible to actually owning a Klimt painting. With its large colour reproductions of details, one can get closer to the paintings than is possible in a museum. This opulent book is the perfect embodiment of the art of Klimt. This is a book he would have been proud of. In every way an indispensible contribution to research... brilliant foldouts provide large views, while individual enlargements grant fascinating insight into the detail. Gustav Klimt is perhaps best known for his use of gold leaf in intricate paintings. His life's work is still celebrated today for the beauty, sense of sorrow and passion that he was able to capture in a single portrait. It has been 150 years since Klimt's birth and the launch of his complete works reveals his ideas and creative genius in one impressive volume.