Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings

ISBN-13: 9783836566612 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 604 str.

Tobias G. Natter

Opis

Defining Decadence
The legacy of Gustav Klimt

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist's archive with some 179 letters, cards, writings, and other documents.

With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist movement of 1897, his candid rendering of the female body, and his lustrous "golden phase" when gold leaf brought a shimmering tone and texture to such beloved works as The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, also known as The Woman in Gold.

Through luminous spreads and carefully curated details, the monograph traces the repertoire of Japanese, Byzantine, and allegorical stimuli that informed Klimt's flattened perspectives, his symbolic vocabulary, and his mosaic-like textures. Drawing upon contemporary critics and voices, the book also examines the art world's polarized reception to Klimt's pictures as much as his own stylistic trajectory. From his landscape painting to erotic works to the controversial ceiling for the Great Hall of the University of Vienna, we see how Klimt's admixture of tradition and daring divided the press and public, becried by some as a pornographer, hailed by others as a modern maestro.

Recenzje

"Diese Illustrationen muss man gesehen haben... man erkennt jedes kostbare Detail der fantastischen Mosaike im Palais Stoclet, der Sixtinischen Kapelle des Secessionismus." Brian Sewell in The Evening Standard

O autorze

Tobias G. Natter ist ein international geschätzter Fachmann für die Kunst in Wien um 1900. Er war lange Zeit an der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere in Wien tätig, zuletzt als Chefkurator. Zudem arbeitete er als Gastkurator an der Tate Liverpool, der Neuen Galerie New York, der Hamburger Kunsthalle, der Schirn in Frankfurt am Main und dem Jüdischen Museum Wien. Von 2006 bis 2011 leitete er das Vorarlberger Landesmuseum in Bregenz und war von 2011 bis 2013 Direktor des Wiener Leopold Museums. Im Jahr 2014 gründete er das Unternehmen Natter Fine Arts, das sich auf die Schätzung von Kunstwerken und die Entwicklung von Ausstellungen spezialisiert hat. Bei TASCHEN sind von ihm Gustav Klimt. Sämtliche Gemälde, Kunst für alle. Der Farbholzschnitt in Wien um 1900 und Egon Schiele. Sämtliche Gemälde 1909-1918 erschienen.