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Eftersommar (Late Summer) an early naturalistic work, painted by af Klint in 1903, an example of the works she exhibited to the public during her lifetime. Hilma af Klint was the fourth child of Mathilda af Klint (née Sonntag) and Captain Victor af Klint, a Swedish naval commander, and she spent summers with her family at their manor, "Hanmora", on the island of Adelsö in Lake Mälaren.
Lady with a Fan (German: Dame mit Fächer) was the final portrait created by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. [1] Painted in 1917, the uncommissioned piece depicting an unidentified woman was on an easel in his studio when he died in 1918. [2]
Klimt was known for his portraiture of women and his fascination with the depiction of female sexuality. [4] Twenty years after Klimt's death, nearing the end of the Second World War, Germany annexed Austria in 1938, thus bringing to a halt private collecting of the arts. Dispossessed along with many other Austrian art, sculpture, and cultural ...
Portrait of a Lady is an oil on canvas painting by Gustav Klimt, painted between 1916 and 1917. The painting measures 60 by 55 centimetres (24 in × 22 in). It depicts a portrait of a female figure, composed in an unusually lively expressionistic style. It was acquired by the Galleria Ricci-Oddi in Piacenza in 1925.
Klimt was commissioned to paint the portrait of Johanna Staude in 1917. [5] The portrait prominently features a blouse made of the Blätter (Leaves) fabric designed by textile artist Martha Alber of the Wiener Werkstätte.
The artist Catherine Dean considered that Adele was "the only society lady painted by Klimt who is known definitely to be his mistress", [21] while the journalist Melissa Müller and the academic Monica Tatzkow write that "no evidence has ever been produced that their relationship was more than a friendship". [22]