Gustav klimt biography video about helen

Some of Klimt’s portraits have already gained “iconic” status, one of them being his soaked in the gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

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Yet, before Klimt became the head of the Secession movement in Vienna in , he painted in a very conventional style, as requested by his commissioners. Most of the works below are Klimt’s unknown portraits (or at least much less known).

Would you ever tell they were his?

1. Portraits of Emilie Flöge

In the year that this painting was completed, , a union between Klimt and Flöge families was made.

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Gustav’s brother Ernst married Emilie’s sister Helene. Emilie was then 17 years old, Gustav was 12 years older and it was their first meeting that resulted later in a life-long companionship. Three years later he painted her again, this time in a specific location (so atypical!).

Look at his brushwork, it’s so Impressionistic, so different from anything we know by Klimt. This difference can