Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), fondatore del movimento della Secessione Viennese, fu uno degli artisti più influenti della fine del XIX secolo. Attraverso questo movimento Klimt espresse il suo assoluto disprezzo per l'arte "ufficiale", caratterizzata dall'opposizione al cambiamento e dal rifiuto a legittimare una certa visione del Modernismo. Klimt si ispirò al lento ma inesorabile declino dell'Impero austro-ungarico e alla sua multiforme composizione culturale, esprimendo nelle sue opere una forte componente di erotismo e di sensualità.

Nel volume il lettore troverà le riproduzioni dei più celebri dipinti di Klimt e un testo che

illustra lo straordinario eclettismo di questo grande maestro.

Gustav Klimt

Alfons Mucha ist der ungekrönte König der Jugendstil-Illustration. Für viele Menschen sind Muchas überirdisch schöne, von floralen Ornamentgeflechten umgegebene Frauen, die erste Assoziation mit der beliebten Kunstrichtung der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Muchas Kunst, die sich über die Jahrzehnte immer wieder neuer Beliebtheit erfreuen durfte, ist vor allem seit den 1960er Jahren nicht mehr aus dem Sortiment von Plakat- und Reproduktionsanbietern wegzudenken. Das vorliegende Werk bemüht sich nicht nur darum, einen umfassenden Überblick über Muchas Schaffen zu geben, sondern auch, dem Mann hinter der Kunst gerecht zu werden: seinem Leben, seiner Entwicklung als Künstler und seinem leidenschaftlichen Patriotismus für sein Vaterland, der damaligen Tschechoslowakei.

Alfons Mucha und Kunstwerke

Egon Schiele (1890-1918) é um artista incontornável do Expressionismo.

Influenciado por Klimt e a Secessão Vienense, ele desliga-se ainda muito jovem da arte oficial austríaca. Nervoso, os seus numerosos trabalhos de nús e auto-retratos são fiéis à imagem deste grande artista: eróticos, sensuais e torturados.

Graças ao seu texto e às obras que o ilustram, esta obra transmite-nos todo o talento deste artista que morreu subitamente em 1918.

Schiele

Gustav Klimt nasceu na Áustria em 1862 e passou a sua vida profissional em Viena, cidade cujo caos artístico era um local extraordinário para viver. No início da sua carreira recebeu uma comissão para pintar uma série de frescos, e recebeu o prémio "Cruz de Ouro para Mérito Artístico" pelos seus murais em Burgtheater. O seu nome contudo está mais ligado à Secessão Vienense. Este movimento revolucionário separou-se definitivamente do público, da arte académica.

A atmosfera de Nuda Veritas de Klimt pode ser associada à lenta languidez das óperas de Strauss ou às produções teatrais de Schnitzler. As suas pinturas, assim como alguns dos seus desenhos que escaparam ao fogo, demonstram uma sensualidade de rara delicadeza. Para Klimt "Toda a arte é erótica", quer seja expressa pela extravagante decoração Bizantina da sua obra Judith I, ou através da simples nudez.

Klimt

Les portraits, les nus et les natures mortes de Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) résument l'esprit Art déco et Jazz Age. Ils reflètent le style de vie élégant et hédoniste d'une élite fortunée et glamour dans le Paris de l'entre-deux-guerres. Combinant une formidable technique classique et des éléments empruntés au cubisme, Tamara de Lempicka représente à l'époque le summum de la modernité, tout en s'inspirant de grands maîtres portraitistes comme Bronzino et Ingres. Ce livre célèbre la beauté rationnelle de ses meilleurs travaux réalisés entre 1920 et 1930. Il retrace l'histoire de la vie extraordinaire de cette femme séductrice et talentueuse du début du siècle en Pologne et dans la Russie des tsars, ainsi que celle de ses années glorieuses à Paris et de ses longues années de déclin aux Etats-Unis jusqu'à sa redécouverte triomphante dans les années 70, lorsque ses portraits devenaient des icônes emblématiques mondialement connues.

Tamara de Lempicka et oeuvres d'art

Entre courbes et contre-courbes, Mucha créa, à la fin du XIXe siècle, une égérie nouvelle qui devait hanter les rues de Paris. Au fil des représentations de Sarah Bernhard, cette muse voluptueuse devint un véritable emblème de l'Art nouveau et offrit à l'affichiste succès et renommée.

Néanmoins, le talent de l'artiste ne se limita jamais à la lithographie. Nourri par cette passion d'exalter, au mieux, la sensualité du monde qui l'entourait, l'art de Mucha, s'exprima indifféremment tant sur les monumentaux panneaux décoratifs des salles à manger que sur les petites pièces délicates de porcelaine. C'est toute la richesse et la variété de cet artiste fin-de-siècle que nous fait redécouvrir ici l'auteur.

Mucha

I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly womenBeautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt's paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now. The subjects he treats allegories, portraits, landscapes and erotic figures  contain virtually no reference to external events, but strive rather to create a world where beauty, above everything else, is dominant. His use of colour and pattern was profoundly influenced by the art of Japan, ancient Egypt, and Byzantium. Ravenne, the flat, two-dimensional perspective of his paintings, and the frequently stylised quality of his images form an oeuvre imbued with a profound sensuality and one where the figure of woman, above all, reigns supreme. Klimt's very first works brought him success at an unusually young age. Gustav, born in 1862, obtained a state grant to study at Kunstgewerbeschule (the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts) at the age of fourteen. His talents as a draughtsman and painter were quickly noticed, and in 1879 he formed the Künstlercompagnie (Artists' Company) with his brother Ernst and another student, Franz Matsch. The latter part of the nineteenth century was a period of great architectural activity in Vienna. In 1857, the Emperor Franz Joseph had ordered the destruction of the fortifications that had surrounded the medieval city centre. The Ringstrasse was the result, a budding new district with magnificent buildings and beautiful parks, all paid for by public expenses. Therefore the young Klimt and his partners had ample opportunities to show off their talents, and they received early commissions to contribute to the decorations for the pageant organised to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the Empress Elisabeth. In 1894, Matsch moved out of their communal studio, and in 1897 Klimt, together with his closest friends, resigned from the Künstlerhausgenossenschaft (the Cooperative Society of Austrian Artists) to form a new movement known as the Secession, of which he was immediately elected president. The Secession was a great success, holding both a first and second exhibition in 1898. The movement made enough money to commission its very own building, designed for it by the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich. Above the entrance was its motto: To each age its art, to art its freedom. From around 1897 onward, Klimt spent almost every summer on the Attersee with the Flge family. These were periods of peace and tranquillity in which he produced the landscape paintings constituting almost a quarter of his entire oeuvre. Klimt made sketches for virtually everything he did. Sometimes there were over a hundred drawings for one painting, each showing a different detail  a piece of clothing or jewellery, or a simple gesture. Just how exceptional Gustav Klimt was is perhaps reflected in the fact that he had no predecessors and no real followers. He admired Rodin and Whistler without slavishly copying them, and was admired in turn by the younger Viennese painters Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, both of whom were greatly influenced by Klimt.

Gustav Klimt

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