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    Klimt
    Klimt
    Klimt
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    Klimt

    By Patrick Bade and Jane Rogoyska

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    “I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now. The subjects he treats – allegories, portraits, landscapes and erotic figures – contain virtually no reference to external events, but strive rather to create a world where beauty, above everything else, is dominant. His use of colour and pattern was profoundly influenced by the art of Japan, ancient Egypt, and Byzantium. Ravenne, the flat, two-dimensional perspective of his paintings, and the frequently stylised quality of his images form an oeuvre imbued with a profound sensuality and one where the figure of woman, above all, reigns supreme. Klimt’s very first works brought him success at an unusually young age. Gustav, born in 1862, obtained a state grant to study at Kunstgewerbeschule (the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts) at the age of fourteen. His talents as a draughtsman and painter were quickly noticed, and in 1879 he formed the Künstlercompagnie (Artists’ Company) with his brother Ernst and another student, Franz Matsch. The latter part of the nineteenth century was a period of great architectural activity in Vienna. In 1857, the Emperor Franz Joseph had ordered the destruction of the fortifications that had surrounded the medieval city centre. The Ringstrasse was the result, a budding new district with magnificent buildings and beautiful parks, all paid for by public expenses. Therefore the young Klimt and his partners had ample opportunities to show off their talents, and they received early commissions to contribute to the decorations for the pageant organised to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the Empress Elisabeth. In 1894, Matsch moved out of their communal studio, and in 1897 Klimt, together with his closest friends, resigned from the Künstlerhausgenossenschaft (the Cooperative Society of Austrian Artists) to form a new movement known as the Secession, of which he was immediately elected president. The Secession was a great success, holding both a first and second exhibition in 1898. The movement made enough money to commission its very own building, designed for it by the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich. Above the entrance was its motto: “To each age its art, to art its freedom.” From around 1897 onward, Klimt spent almost every summer on the Attersee with the Flöge family. These were periods of peace and tranquillity in which he produced the landscape paintings constituting almost a quarter of his entire oeuvre. Klimt made sketches for virtually everything he did. Sometimes there were over a hundred drawings for one painting, each showing a different detail – a piece of clothing or jewellery, or a simple gesture. Just how exceptional Gustav Klimt was is perhaps reflected in the fact that he had no predecessors and no real followers. He admired Rodin and Whistler without slavishly copying them, and was admired in turn by the younger Viennese painters Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, both of whom were greatly influenced by Klimt.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateJan 7, 2018
    ISBN9781781609897
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      Klimt - Patrick Bade

      Jane Rogoyska and Patrick Bade

      Gustav Klimt

      (1862-1918)

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      Jane Rogoyska and Patrick Bade

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      Biography

      Gustav Klimt

      Vienna Secession

      Ver Sacrum

      List of Illustrations

      I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women.

      — Gustav Klimt

      Biography

      1862: Birth of Gustav Klimt in Baumgarten, near Vienna. His father, Ernest Klimt was a gold engraver and his mother, Anna Finster, was a lyric singer.

      1876: He enters the School of Arts and Sciences at the Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna. He takes painting classes from Professor Laufberger.

      1877: To make money, he takes photographic portraits.

      1883: Klimt gets his degree from The School of Arts and Sciences in Vienna. He opens a workshop with one of his brothers (Ernst Klimt) and another painter (Franz Matsch). They do several works together, some of which are frescos for theatres.

      1885: The group decorates the Hermès villa and the National Theatre of Fiume.

      1887: The Municipal Consul of Vienna asks Klimt to paint an interior scene of the ancient imperial theatre.

      1888: Klimt completes the painting of the Imperial Theatre. He receives the Gold Cross of Merit for the accomplishment.

      1889: Klimt begins the decoration of the staircases at the Museum of Art History in Vienna. He receives the Imperial Prize, awarded for the first time to him.

      1890: Klimt becomes a member of the group for artists in the plastic arts in Vienna. With his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, he is awarded the highest recognition for the decoration of the Museum of Art History.

      1892: His father and his brother Ernst die.

      1893: Klimt takes a trip to Hungary where Duke Esterhazy asks him to paint the Totis theatre.

      1894: The Minister of Education asks Klimt and Matsch to do the Faculty Paintings on the ceiling of the hallway in the University of Vienna.

      1897: Klimt leaves the association for artists in the plastic arts in Vienna. Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Klimt found the Vienna Secession and Klimt becomes the Succession’s president. Olbrich, Hoffman and Klimt work on the paintings Philosophy and Medicine for the University.

      1898: First exposition of the Vienna Secession and the founding of its magazine: Ver Sacrum. The same year, Klimt becomes a member of the International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Engravers in London and is nominated a corresponding member of the Munich Succession.

      1899: He finishes the decoration for the Music Room at the Dumba palace with his paintings Schubert at the Piano and Music.

      1900: He exhibits, next to landscape

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