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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790596503321

Autore

Rogoyska Jane

Titolo

Gustav Klimt [[electronic resource] /] / Jane Rogoyska and Patrick Bade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Parkstone International, [2011]

ISBN

1-283-95901-1

1-78042-729-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Best of

Altri autori (Persone)

KlimtGustav <1862-1918.>

BadePatrick

Disciplina

709.2

B

Soggetti

Artists - Austria

Biographies.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The Viennese Secession -- His life -- His work -- Biography.

Sommario/riassunto

Gustav Klimt was born in Austria in 1862 and spent his working life in Vienna, a city whose artistic chaos made it an extraordinary place to live. In his early career he received a public commission to paint a series of frescos, and received the "Gold Cross for Artistic Merit" for his Burgtheater murals. However, his name is most enduringly linked to the Viennese Secession. This revolutionary movement separated itself definitively from public, academic art. The atmosphere of Klimt's Nuda Veritas could be likened to the slow languor of Strauss's operas or to the theatre productions of Schnitzle