Klimt's Glittering Ode to Love Scandalized Turn-of-the-Century Audiences. Here Are 3 Things You May Not Know About 'The Kiss'
Gustav Klimt, Die Medizin (Kompositionsentwurf) (1897–98). “All art is erotic,” Klimt once mused. That same philosophy occasionally got the artist into hot water. Klimt, who was notorious for his amorous proclivities (he is believed to have fathered some 14 children), emerged as a unique voice during a period of intense modernization in Vienna. At the dawn of the 20th century, long-standing Catholic traditions were upended by radical philosophies and the emerging field of psychology, including the writings of the city’s own Sigmund Freud. Meanwhile, Vienna Secession artists like Kl...
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