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description: 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 Klimts 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 Klimts work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimts 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 Hansjrg Krug Susanna Partsch Angelina Ptschner and Michaela ReichelThe Editor and Author:Tobias G. Natter is an internationally acknowledged expert on art in Vienna around 1900. For many years he worked at the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna latterly as head curator. He also worked as guest curator at the Tate Liverpool the Neue Galerie New York the Hamburger Kunsthalle the Schirn in Frankfurt am Main and the Jewish Museum in Vienna. From 2006 to 2011 he directed the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz and from 2011 to 2013 was director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. In 2014 he founded Natter Fine Arts which specializes in assessing works of art and developing exhibition concepts. He is the author of TASCHENs Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings; Art for All: The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900; and Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings 19091918.Details:Gustav Klimt: The Complete PaintingsTobias G. NatterHardcover with fold-outs 29 x 39.5 cm 676 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-2795-8Edition: EnglishSUZY MENKES:Surely TASCHENs Klimt: The Complete Paintings. Each unfolding page  with its strokeable surface of intense paintwork and its meld of Byzantine imagery and Venetian mosaics  brings to life the exotic eroticism of an exceptional artist.
language: English
title: Gustav Klimt: Complete Paintings
publisher: TASCHEN