Gustav Klimt Hard Cover First Edition Book, 1968 by Fritz Novotny & Johannes Dobai

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A lavish monograph on the work and life of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), with texts by Fritz Novotny … more A lavish monograph on the work and life of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), with texts by Fritz Novotny and Johannes Dobai; afterword by Friedrich Welz. The book is 424 pages; 30 color and 85 b&w full-page collotype-printed plates plus 60 drawings in color and b&w + 244 text illustrations; it measures 12 x 12 inches. A lovely copy of a beautifully produced book and a wonderful addition to any library/home - it would be a wonderful coffee table book!

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods
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Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. less