Gustav Klimt

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GUSTAV KLIMT: THE COLLECTION OF THE WIEN MUSEUM
Edited by Ursula Storch.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775733618 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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GUSTAV KLIMT: EXPECTATION AND FULFILLMENT
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775733052 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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ADORABLE ADELE: A MODERN FAIRY TALE
Text by Peter Stephan Jungk. Illustrated by John Martinez.
NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK
ISBN: 9781931794183 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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PORTRAIT OF ADELE BLOCH-BAUER
Text by Georg Gaugusch, Sophie Lillie.
NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK
ISBN: 9781931794169 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt: The Collection of the Wien Museum

Edited by Ursula Storch.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Nowhere is the fabled sensuality of Gustav Klimt more apparent than in the tapering limpidity of his drawings. Now, in celebration of the artist’s 150th birthday, this volume draws on the world’s largest collection of Klimt drawings, at the Vienna Museum, to offer a thorough account of around 400 works by the artist. Drawings are arranged in thematic groups, such as the Secession works, sketches for the Faculty Paintings (also known as the University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings) and the nudes. The book also includes paintings from the Vienna Museum collection, such as the portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902), as well as posters and prints designed for the Viennese Secession (including a number of original drafts, as well as the first prints), plus photographs of some extraordinary memorabilia, such as the artist’s smock, his death mask and a drawing of Klimt’s body by Egon Schiele. Also featured are rare vintage prints of early portrait photographs and sculptures. With more than 500 color reproductions, this volume constitutes a uniquely broad overview of the artist’s legendary virtuoso draughtsmanship.
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was a founding member and president of the Vienna Secession. Trained academically, Klimt infused allegory painting with an eroticism that was frequently deemed controversial--perhaps most notoriously in his allegorical portraits of “Philosophy,” “Medicine” and “Jurisprudence,” for the ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna, which were destroyed by the German army in 1945. His later paintings of the “Golden Phase” expressed his love of Byzantine art.

Gustav Klimt: Expectation and Fulfillment

Cartoons for the Mosaic Frieze at Stoclet House

Edited by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Beate Murr. Text by Rainald Franz, Anette Freytag, Beate Murr, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Johannes Wieninger.
Published by Hatje Cantz

In 1905, Adolphe Stoclet commissioned a private mansion in Brussels. Josef Hoffmann designed the home and its garden, and the many artists and friends of the Wiener Werkstätte decorated all of the rooms. The end result was a true synthesis of the arts, an exquisitely realized environment whose residents would carefully dress so as to complement their surroundings. But it was the contribution of Gustav Klimt that would become the Stoclet Palace’s most famous component: a three-part mosaic frieze for the dining room, consisting of 15 separate components inlaid with gold, enamel and semi-precious stones. On the occasion of the recent completion of the frieze’s restoration--the only one of Klimt’s murals that survived the aerial bombardments of World War II--this publication examines Klimt’s methods and compares his instructions with the work’s execution.

Adorable Adele: A Modern Fairy Tale

Text by Peter Stephan Jungk. Illustrated by John Martinez.
Published by Neue Galerie New York

The beautifully rendered children's book Adorable Adele tells the story of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the elegant daughter of a Jewish Viennese banking family, who would grow up to marry the wealthy sugar manufacturer Ferdinand Bloch and later be immortalized in one of the greatest portraits of the twentieth century, Gustav Klimt's "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (1907). The painting was confiscated by the Nazis when Ferdinand Bloch, by then a widower, fled Austria in 1939. After spending many years in a Viennese museum, it was finally reclaimed by Bloch-Bauer's niece, Maria, who parted with it in 2006, knowing that she wanted this long-lost masterpiece to be seen by as many people as possible. It is now one of the most important pieces in the collection of New York's renowned Neue Galerie. Illustrated with all of the pattern, color and gilt of fin-de-siècle Vienna, this sophisticated story book is a delight for children and adults alike.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Text by Georg Gaugusch, Sophie Lillie.
Published by Neue Galerie New York

Few paintings have captured the public's imagination as thoroughly as Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a prominent Viennese sugar manufacturer. The suggestive, gold-leafed painting not only rendered Bloch-Bauer's irresistible beauty and sensuality; its intricate ornamentation and exotic motifs heralded the dawn of Modernity and a culture intent on radically forging a new identity. With this painting, Klimt created a secular icon that would come to stand for the aspirations of a whole generation in fin-de-siècle Vienna.
But as synonymous as this famous model's likeness has become with Vienna's Golden Age, the real Adele Bloch-Bauer remained somewhat shielded from the public eye. Filled with well-chosen details, documentary photographs and historically related artworks, this singular, scholarly study attempts to reveal and honor the remarkable life and legacy of Adele Bloch-Bauer and her husband, Ferdinand Bloch, and their patronage of one of Austria's most radical forebears of Modernity.