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Uncle Joe

(58,349 posts) Tue Oct 5, 2021, 10:32 AM Oct 2021

The Kiss By Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained

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The Kiss By Gustav Klimt: Great Art Explained (Original Post) Uncle Joe Oct 2021 OP

The same artist who did The Woman in Gold.... ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2021 #1

The Woman in Gold is a great story. Klimt deserves attention to his other paintings, however. CTyankee Oct 2021 #2

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,783 posts)

1. The same artist who did The Woman in Gold....

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 11:04 AM

Oct 2021

For which the film with Helen Mirren as the woman in the painting's niece. A painting stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

Saw a Klimt painting at the Modern Museum of New York in late 1973.

CTyankee

(63,902 posts)

2. The Woman in Gold is a great story. Klimt deserves attention to his other paintings, however.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 01:18 PM

Oct 2021

Here is a terrific one (a copy, alas, because the original was destroyed in WWII)

Schubert at the Piano

https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2015/08/Gustav-Klimt.html

Adele Bloch-Bauer (the woman in gold) can be seen at the Neue Gallery in NYC.

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