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Clair, Milan lypse joyeuse, Paris CM. Xebehay. Gustav Klimt. Doku- I M^i mentation, Vienna Jahrhunderts. J. Geneva Klimt, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt Interior of the old 1898; exh. cat, Vienna. Vienna Idyll, S. Vienne 1890-1938. L'apoca- Sabarsky, Gustav Klimt, exh. cat, Brussels W. Hofmann. Gustav Klimt und die W. G. Fischer, Wiener Jah rh u n dertwen de, Floge, Salzburg G. Klimt und Emilie Vienna Adele Bloch-Bauer, 1907; oil iEJrirl on canvas, 138x138; A. Comini, Gustav Klimt. E. Di Stefano, Gustav Klimt, London Art Dossier no.
AT TAORMINA of the become the Among the artists engaged to give a new face to the capital of the Empire was Klimt, THE THEATER activity of site who had received his diplo- ma from the School of Applied Arts as an architectural decorator. (1886-88, Vienna, Burgtheater, left staircase). In these decorations Klimt celebrates the role of theater in society. • His earliest works in this area are the ceiling decorations for the staircases in the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches seum. The in style of these history paintings is harmony with the taste literary, of the times.
If their femaleness overtones, as is is not immune from erotic evident in the repeated motif of the open almond shapes, the sumptuousness of their clothes and tapestry-like backgrounds REFINED FEMININITY Klimt designed dresses for the fashion salon of his close friend is i J evidence of their high rank in society. trace of attributes appears, element; the identity of the tirely to decoration, No no further narrative sitter is entrusted en- which transcending orna- (above in a photo of 1909). Baroness 28 itself psychological substance.