The enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene, Klimt was notorious for his portraits of beautiful women. Illustrated with color reproductions, this book profiles the women who figured in the artist’s life and on his canvasses. The author looks beyond the standard assumption that Klimt was a hard-hearted philanderer, pointing instead to his committed and loving relationship with Emilie Fl?ge that prevailed despite the parade of beautiful women who wandered in and out of theartist’s studio. Partsch demonstrates Klimt’s role in the evolution of portrait painting, which helped usher in the age of Expressionism.

Introduction:

Klimt's Popularity

Klimt's Fame

Klimt's Vienna - Then and

Now

Years of Training

Early Works and the

Beginning of a Career

Early Portraits

"Oedipal Revolt"

the Secession

Modernity

The Faculty Paintings

Early Landscapes

The Secession Building and

its Exhibitions

The Beethoven Frieze

The Kiss

The Three Ages of Woman

Death and Life

Hope

Judith

The Stoclet Frieze

The Break-Up of the

Secession and the 1908

Kunstschau exhibition

"I'm not particularly

interesting"

Landscapes

"Solitary Dialogues":

Klimt's Erotic Drawings

"The World in Female

Form"

Danae

Ladies' Portraits

Late Works

Chronology

Notes

Bibliography