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Gustav Klimt’s Hunger to Please

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Gustav Klimt
Vienna
Image for article Gustav Klimt’s Hunger to Please
MAR 19, 2024

A closer look at Gustav Kimt's path from academic painter to Viennese radical to professional heiress-glorifier suggests a man stuck between 19th- and 20th-century attitudes, and all the more fascinating for it.