Klimt Landscapes

This lavish exhibition catalog showcases Gustav Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, and atmospheric landscape paintings, exploring his style's evolution from academic to ornate and painterly. It also examines his relationship with his muse, fashion designer Emilie Floge, and his engagement with the Viennese avant-garde, featuring vibrant high-quality reproductions and engaging essays by leading scholars.

Format: Hardback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2024
Publisher: Prestel

This lavish exhibition catalog offers a profound appreciation of Gustav Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, and atmospheric landscape paintings, as inviting and sensual as a warm summer day. For the last twenty years of his career, Gustav Klimt devoted considerable energy to painting landscapes during his summer vacations—and these bucolic scenes became some of his most sought-after pictures. Filled with vibrant, high-quality reproductions and featuring engaging essays by leading scholars in the field, this exhibition catalog situates Klimt's landscapes alongside fine-de-siècle fashion, photography, and decorative arts of the Wiener Werkstätte in particular. Klimt's landscapes are examined within the context of his larger oeuvre and trace the evolution of his style: from one informed by the academic tradition, to his ornate golden style decorative approach influenced by the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk, and then to a more painterly manner of working in pure color. The book also considers Klimt's relationship with his muse, fashion designer Emilie Floge; his deep engagement with the Viennese avant-garde; and the specific techniques he employed to achieve mesmerizing, harmonious works that literally shimmer with light and color.

Weight: 2360g
Dimension: 286 x 235 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783791377360