Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), a controversial painter, especially in his home city of Vienna, became the outstanding artist of the Austrian Stilkunst at the turn of the century.Born in 1862 the son of an ...
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian artist and a graphic artist. He was born in Baumgarten, a suburb in Vienna on July 14, 1862. Klimt was best known for his paintings of the human body. He was a noveau arti...
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Vienna (dpa) - People who left behind artwork when they fled
Austria during the Nazi regime of 1938-1945, or had them stolen, as
of Tuesday, trawl through an internet databa...
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The grandson of an Austrian woman who disappeared during the Holocaust is demanding restitution for a Gustav Klimt painting now owned by cosmetics magnate Leonard Lauder, saying the artwork was sto...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Billionaire casino owner Steve Wynn has made
the artistic blunder of the century.
He accidentally poked a hole in the Picasso painting La Reve (T...
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Vienna (dpa) - Austria Wednesday returned Edvard Munch's "Summer
Night at the Beach" to Marina Fistoulari-Mahler, granddaughter and
sole heir of Alma Mahler, wife of Austria...
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Don't lick the walls. An all-chocolate room was unveiled in Manhattan on Tuesday — a pre-Valentine's Day creation complete with furniture and artwork made of the sweet stuff."It's the perfect...
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Standing in the Neue Galerie in front of Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, I couldn’t help thinking of one my favorite Donald Trump anecdotes:
Once upon a time, a fellow billionaire asked M...
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Standing in the Neue Galerie in front of Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I, I couldn’t help thinking of one my favorite Donald Trump anecdotes:
Once upon a time, a fellow billionaire asked ...
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Admission is being tripled to $50 on an extra weekday for viewing Gustav Klimt's art nouveau portrait of "Golden Adele," the world's most expensive painting.
The 1907 oil of a Viennese soc...
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New York (dpa) - An historic and controversial art auction at
Christie's in New York Wednesday turned into the biggest ever with
close to 500 million dollars worth of art so...
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The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate ...
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Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt
Austria sets up internet databank for art looted during Nazi era
