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Images of the gorgeous mosaic and gold-leaf paintings of Vienna's native son Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly...
...have some designs in your sketch pad. How's your clothing line coming? Yes, that's a little light sweater design for fall-winter 2006. I've got a new line based on a movie I just finished about the artist Klimt...
Even John Galliano, known for his runway theatrics, toned it down with an almost all-nude-colored Christian Dior collection of wispy dresses overlaid with black lace. The inspiration could have been one of the Klimt nudes on display in the newly restored Grand Palais where he presented his show...
Tucked away behind Klimt, however, are the pieces that are less well-known, and as a result, even more powerful—their revolutionary quality even fresher. For instance, Oskar Kokoschka’s lithographs from hardbound children’s books are creepy even today...
Egon Schiele’s “Sleeping Figure with a Blanket,” with its watercolor browns and dreamsicle oranges, employs less inviting colors than the Kokoschka lithographs but is no less visually-stimulating. As is the case with several of the Klimt sketches, Schiele intentionally waffles on the orientation of the work, in part by signing the piece twice, once to indicate that the piece is meant to be viewed as a portrait and again, indicating a landscape...