Gustav Klimt
Drawings & Watercolours
Rainer Metzger
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| ‘Delightful … includes some intensely sexy drawings of women that make plain the artist’s desire for them with every caressing line’ | – Frank Whitford,
The Sunday Times |
| ‘Klimt at his best’ | | – The Independent on Sunday |
There can be no doubt about Klimt’s greatness as a draughtsman. Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolours.
Rainer Metzger brings together hundreds of Klimt’s works on paper in a way that enriches our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his oeuvre. Many revolve around Klimt’s taboo-breaking main themes – the naked woman, erotica and homoerotica – while others provide allegorical and historical insights. Between these two poles lie Klimt’s elegantly direct preparatory sketches and studies, tirelessly and manically executed – frameworks that would lay the foundations for his paintings.
This book is a fitting testament to a hitherto neglected aspect of Klimt’s art, which is as complex and contradictory as the times in which it was made and as the man who made it.
Vienna-based art historian and writer Rainer Metzger is a lecturer at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Stuttgart University, and the Academy of Art in Karlsruhe. His books include Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Paintings.
Also of interest
Klimt World of Art series
Egon Schiele World of Art series
Egon Schiele: Drawings & Watercolours
Van Gogh: Master Draughtsman
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 050023826X | | ISBN-13 978-0500238264 | | | | 22.9 x 15.2 cm | | PLC with Jacket | | 400pp | | 309 illustrations, 282 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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