ISBN: 0712651683 9780712651684

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Page count: 155

In Vienna at the end of the 19th century, the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire witnessed a surge of unprecedented creativity in the fields of painting, music, literature and architecture. Gustav Klimt ranks as one of the foremost figures of this period and in 1897, the Vienna Sezession, the movement of which he was president, brought together a group of artists dedicated to promoting modern art. Klimt's involvement with the Sezession and the scandals provoked by his symbolic paintings shook European intellectual society, for Klimt was a painter to the Viennese upper classes. His portraits of women are among the most sensual representations of the female form in the history of art.