Tobias G. Natter,Gustav Klimt
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 Klimtâ€™s 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 Klimtâ€™s work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimtâ€™s 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, HansjÃ¶rg Krug, Susanna Partsch, Angelina PÃ¶tschner, and Michaela Reichel,The Editor and Author:,Tobias G. Natter is an internationally acknowledged expert on art in â€œVienna around 1900.â€ 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 TASCHENâ€™s ,Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings; Art for All: The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900;, and ,Egon Schiele: The Complete Paintings, 1909â€“1918.,Details:,Gustav Klimt: The Complete Paintings,Tobias G. Natter,Hardcover with fold-outs, 29 x 39.5 cm, 676 pages,ISBN 978-3-8365-2795-8,Edition: English,SUZY MENKES:,â€œSurely ,TASCHENâ€™s Klimt: The Complete Paintings,. Each unfolding page â€” with its strokeable surface of intense paintwork and its meld of Byzantine imagery and Venetian mosaics â€” brings to life the exotic eroticism of an exceptional artist.â€
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Gustav Klimt: Complete Paintings (XXL)