Gustav Klimt Drawings & Watercolours By Rainer Metzger

Gustav Klimt
Drawings & Watercolours
Rainer Metzger




'Delightful … includes some intensely sexy drawings of women that make plain the artist’s desire for them with every caressing line' Sunday Times See Inside
PreviousJ. M. W. Turner
NextTurner in his Time

Overview


There can be no doubt about Klimt’s greatness as a draughtsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolours.


Rainer Metzger brings together hundreds of Klimt’s works on paper in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre. Many revolve around Klimt’s taboo-breaking main themes – the naked woman, erotica and homoerotica – while others provide allegorical and historical insights. Between these two poles lie Klimt’s elegantly direct preparatory sketches and studies, tirelessly and manically executed – frameworks that would lay the foundations for his paintings.

This book is a fitting testament to a hitherto neglected aspect of Klimt’s art, which is as complex and contradictory as the times in which it was made and as the man who made it.
Read Less

Reviews


'Klimt at his best'
Independent on Sunday

'Klimt at his best'
The Independent on Sunday

Related Topics
WATERCOLOURS

TuttArte

10月27日下午3:11 · 

Ritratto di Emilie Flöge
Gustav Klimt (Austriaco, 1862 – 1918)
Data: 1902
(Presso l’Historisches Museum der Stadt, Vienna)