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Vienna 1900 : Klimt, Schiele, and their times : a total work of art / edited by Barbara Steffen on behalf of the Fondation Beyeler.
LIBRA N6810.V5 V54 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918.
- Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918.
- Wiener Secession.
- Art, Austrian--Austria--Vienna--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Austrian.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Wiener Secession--Exhibitions.
- Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918--Exhibitions.
- Klimt, Gustav.
- Schiele, Egon, 1890-1918--Exhibitions.
- Schiele, Egon.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, [2010]
- Summary:
- At the beginning of the twentieth century, Vienna was one of the six largest cities in the world, recently transformed by rapid industrialization, and by successive waves of immigration from various corners of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its lively cabaret and coffeehouse culture was abuzz with creative zeal and played host to the most exciting developments in European culture, from psychoanalysis to the earliest incarnations of Austrian modernism, above all the Viennese Secession and the Wiener Werkst tte. Hatje Cantz's opulent publication on turn-of-the-century Vienna examines the years 1890-1918, placing at the center of those maelstrom decades the openly sexual portraits and landscapes of Gustav Klimt and the erotically contorted figurations of his prot g, Egon Schiele. Also profiled are the portraits of the young Oskar Kokoschka, self-portraits by Richard Gerstl, paintings by composer and painter Arnold Sch nberg and works by many other artists, architects, furniture designers and craftspeople from the Secession, the Werkst tte and beyond: Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner, Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann. Essays by Christian Meyer, Franz Smola, Barbara Sternthal and Beate Susanne Wehr set this motley assembly of artists and craftsmen in historical and theoretical context, showing how they paved ways for the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements to come.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sept. 26, 2010-Jan. 16, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3775726853
- 9783775726856
- OCLC:
- 648937156
- Publisher Number:
- 99948250272
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