Gustav Klimt // Complete Paintings // Special Edition

A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. During his lifetime, he was a controversial star whose works made passions run high. A symbol of Modernism, as well as an embodiment of tradition, his works polarized and divided the art-loving world, with the press and general public alike split over the question: For or against Klimt? 

This monograph explores Klimt’s oeuvre with particular emphasis upon such contemporary voices. With a complete catalogue of his paintings, including new photographs of the Stoclet Frieze commissioned exclusively for this book, it examines the reactions to Klimt’s work throughout his career. Subjects range from Klimt’s portrayal of women to his adoption of landscape painting. The theory that Klimt was a man of few words who rarely put pen to paper is also dispelled with the inclusion of 179 letters, cards, writings, and other documents from the artist.