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“Natter’s catalogue raisonné is a great achievement and is sure to please in many different levels. From start to finish it is a delight to read with its lively variety of tone, elegance of expression, diverting hints of wry humour, and recurring evidence of an author in command of an enormous wealth of Viennese cultural and social history. Supplementing the sequence of individual entries, there are some exceptionally clear and informative introductions to groups or pairs of interrelated works. Especially engaging are the biographies of the female subjects of Klimt’s portraits, material that Natter first began to gather when preparing the celebrated Viennese exhibition of 2000 on ‘Klimt’s women’ and further explored during his subsequent research into Klimt’s patrons. Outstanding in this respect are Natter’s accounts of the lives of Sonja Knips, Rose con Rosthorn-Friedmann, Gertrud Loew, Adele Bloch Bauer, and Elisabeth Lederer. The most valuable of the essays in this volume, is the account of Klimt as a draughtsman by Marian Bissanz-Prakken. Even for those familiar with this scholar’s long record of innovative research, deep thought and gift for clear and persuasive argument, this text offers something new: a survey of the drawings (in twelve segments, each with its own group of images) organised entirely thematically. Under succinct but resonant headings, examples in all media and from across the entire chronological span of Klimt’s output are marshalled up as to reveal the rich seam of continuity underlying the sparkle of invention.”— Burlington Magazine, London, United Kingdom
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“Natter’s catalogue raisonné is a great achievement and is sure to please in many different levels. From start to finish it is a delight to read with its lively variety of tone, elegance of expression, diverting hints of wry humour, and recurring evidence of an author in command of an enormous wealth of Viennese cultural and social history. Supplementing the sequence of individual entries, there are some exceptionally clear and informative introductions to groups or pairs of interrelated works. Especially engaging are the biographies of the female subjects of Klimt’s portraits, material that Natter first began to gather when preparing the celebrated Viennese exhibition of 2000 on ‘Klimt’s women’ and further explored during his subsequent research into Klimt’s patrons. Outstanding in this respect are Natter’s accounts of the lives of Sonja Knips, Rose con Rosthorn-Friedmann, Gertrud Loew, Adele Bloch Bauer, and Elisabeth Lederer. The most valuable of the essays in this volume, is the account of Klimt as a draughtsman by Marian Bissanz-Prakken. Even for those familiar with this scholar’s long record of innovative research, deep thought and gift for clear and persuasive argument, this text offers something new: a survey of the drawings (in twelve segments, each with its own group of images) organised entirely thematically. Under succinct but resonant headings, examples in all media and from across the entire chronological span of Klimt’s output are marshalled up as to reveal the rich seam of continuity underlying the sparkle of invention.”— Burlington Magazine, London, Royaume-Uni
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“Natter’s catalogue raisonné is a great achievement and is sure to please in many different levels. From start to finish it is a delight to read with its lively variety of tone, elegance of expression, diverting hints of wry humour, and recurring evidence of an author in command of an enormous wealth of Viennese cultural and social history. Supplementing the sequence of individual entries, there are some exceptionally clear and informative introductions to groups or pairs of interrelated works. Especially engaging are the biographies of the female subjects of Klimt’s portraits, material that Natter first began to gather when preparing the celebrated Viennese exhibition of 2000 on ‘Klimt’s women’ and further explored during his subsequent research into Klimt’s patrons. Outstanding in this respect are Natter’s accounts of the lives of Sonja Knips, Rose con Rosthorn-Friedmann, Gertrud Loew, Adele Bloch Bauer, and Elisabeth Lederer. The most valuable of the essays in this volume, is the account of Klimt as a draughtsman by Marian Bissanz-Prakken. Even for those familiar with this scholar’s long record of innovative research, deep thought and gift for clear and persuasive argument, this text offers something new: a survey of the drawings (in twelve segments, each with its own group of images) organised entirely thematically. Under succinct but resonant headings, examples in all media and from across the entire chronological span of Klimt’s output are marshalled up as to reveal the rich seam of continuity underlying the sparkle of invention.”— Burlington Magazine, London, Großbritannien
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“Natter’s catalogue raisonné is a great achievement and is sure to please in many different levels. From start to finish it is a delight to read with its lively variety of tone, elegance of expression, diverting hints of wry humour, and recurring evidence of an author in command of an enormous wealth of Viennese cultural and social history. Supplementing the sequence of individual entries, there are some exceptionally clear and informative introductions to groups or pairs of interrelated works. Especially engaging are the biographies of the female subjects of Klimt’s portraits, material that Natter first began to gather when preparing the celebrated Viennese exhibition of 2000 on ‘Klimt’s women’ and further explored during his subsequent research into Klimt’s patrons. Outstanding in this respect are Natter’s accounts of the lives of Sonja Knips, Rose con Rosthorn-Friedmann, Gertrud Loew, Adele Bloch Bauer, and Elisabeth Lederer. The most valuable of the essays in this volume, is the account of Klimt as a draughtsman by Marian Bissanz-Prakken. Even for those familiar with this scholar’s long record of innovative research, deep thought and gift for clear and persuasive argument, this text offers something new: a survey of the drawings (in twelve segments, each with its own group of images) organised entirely thematically. Under succinct but resonant headings, examples in all media and from across the entire chronological span of Klimt’s output are marshalled up as to reveal the rich seam of continuity underlying the sparkle of invention.”— Burlington Magazine, London, Reino Unido
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