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| The Kiss |
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| (but check out Praise to Joy - This Kiss for the Whole World) of Beethoven's Frieze in Vienna's Sucessionist Building |
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| Judith |
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| Buchenwald (German for Beech Forest) |
Monday, March 7, 2016
GUSTAV KLIMT
Klimt was born 1862 and died 1918 (of the flu age 55) in Vienna, a member of the Vienna Seccession, inspired by Byzantium with his Gold paintings. Famous for The Kiss, Judith (Belvedere, Vienna) and Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer (Neue Galerie, NYC). Painted Burgtheatre, and ceilings of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna (latter destroyed in 1945), including Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence.
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