Gustav Klimt was raised in poverty in mid-nineteenth century Vienna but his precocious artistic talent raised him from the gutter to the heights of Austrian society. Initially a generic painter of historical scenes he soon devised his own unique style featuring semi-naked women in mystical, gold-wrapped, abstract landscapes that either completely enchanted or totally outraged his audience. His trademark heavily patterned, exotically beautiful women captured the sensuality and excitement of the time and electrified Viennese society. Klimt was the leading light of the Vienna Secession, the hugely influential artistic community, and also a leading Symbolist painter whose work places him among the artistic elite. Sadly many of Klimt’s paintings were destroyed at the end of World War II but they at least remain as photographs to show the world what has been lost.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Begins . . .
• Gustav Klimt 1862-1918
• Plate 1: Fable
• Plate 2: Idyll
• Plate 3: The Theater of Taormina
• Plate 4: The Old Burgtheater
• Plate 5: Sappho
• Plate 6: Flowing Water
• Plate 7: Joesph Pembauer
• Plate 8: Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann)
• Plate 9: Love
• Plate 10: Music I
• Plate 11: Actor Joesf Lewinsky as Carlos
• Plate 12: Portrait of Helene Klimt
• Plate 13: Pallas Athene
• Plate 14: Portrait of Sonja Knips
• Plate 15: Portrait of a Woman
• Plate 16: Portrait of Serena Lederer
• Plate 17: Nuda Veritas
• Plate 18: After the Rain
• Plate 19: Mermaids (Whitefish)
• Plate 20: Quite Pond in teh Park of Appeal
• Plate 21: Schubert at the Piano
• Plate 22: Farmhouse with Birch Trees
• Plate 23: Judith I
• Plate 24: Cows in the Barn
• Plate 25: Beethoven Frieze (Detail)
• Plate 26: The Beethoven Frieze
• Plate 27: Beech Forest I
• Plate 28: Gold Fish
• Plate 29: Portrait of Emilie Floge
• Plate 30: Birch Wood
• Plate 31: The Great Poplar
• Plate 32: Portrait of Hermine Gallia
• Plate 33: Hope I
• Plate 34: The Stoclet Frieze
• Plate 35: Stoclet Frieze: Expectation
• Plate 36: Stoclet Frieze: Fulfilment
• Plate 37: Stoclet Frieze: Tree of Life
• Plate 38: The Three Ages of Woman
• Plate 39: Farm Garden with Sunflowers
• Plate 40: Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
• Plate 41: Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer
• Plate 42: Portrait of Fritza Riedler
• Plate 43: The Kiss
• Plate 44: Danae
• Plate 45: Poppy Field
• Plate 46: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
• Plate 47: Water Serpents I
• Plate 48: Water Serpents II
• Plate 49: Hope II
• Plate 50: Flowering Field
• Plate 51: Lady with Hat and Feather Boa
• Plate 52: The Park
• Plate 53: The Black Feather Hat
• Plate 54: Schlob Kammer on the Attersee III
• Plate 55: Farmhouse in Upper Austria
• Plate 56: Das Haus von Guardaboschi
• Plate 57: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
• Plate 58: Portrait of Mada Primavesi
• Plate 59: Aveneue in Schloss Kammer Park
• Plate 60: Malcesine on Lake Garda
• Plate 61: The Virgin
• Plate 62: Church in Cassone
• Plate 63: Portrat of Baroness Elisabeth Bacchofen-Echt
• Plate 64: Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi
• Plate 65: Unterach on Lake Attersee
• Plate 66: Girl Friends (Detail)
• Plate 67: Apple Tree II
• Plate 68: Church in Unterach on the Attersee
• Plate 69: Garden Path with Chickens
• Plate 70: Death and Life
• Plate 71: Portrait of a Lady
• Plate 72: Lady with a Fan
• Plate 73: Adam and Eve
• Plate 74: Baby (Detail)
• Plate 75: Portrait of Johanna Staude
• Plate 76: Portait of a Lady
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