The 38 Artworks exhibited in Leopold Museum Vienna, Austria and ... and ...

The young woman has been captured in a moment of ecstasy. As in many other works by the painter, the closed eyes add to the impression of dreamy sensuality. Klimt drew over a thousand nudes, which lay scattered on his studio floor for weeks and months. They were not all independent, unrelated depict...

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Edith Harms, her sister, Adele, and their parents lived across the street from Schiele’s studio at the Hietzinger Hauptstrasse. Harms and Schiele developed their romance over the course of 1914, despite the fact that Schiele was still involved with his model, Wally Neuzil. It goes without saying tha...

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This sketch was undoubtedly created in connection to a large, seated male nude canvas painted by Schiele in the same year, which is also in the holdings of the Leopold Museum’s collection. A remarkable aspect of this ink drawing is Schiele’s technique of depicting the three figures as dark silhouett...

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From 1887 onward, Rudolf von Alt would regularly travel in midsummer with his daughter, Louise, to Gastein from Salzburg. The melancholy expressed by the letters he wrote there contradicts the artistic fervor from which his most mature works resulted. The Old Spruce in Bad Gastein is a masterpiece o...

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The abundant collection of preserved drawings by Klimt is testament to how important serial drawing was for the artist. In countless drawings, Klimt tried to reach clarity about the poses, proportions, and expressions of his predominantly female models. According to his contemporaries, papers filled...

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Since Gustav Klimt, during his lifetime, was already regarded as Austria’s greatest living artist, he could afford to surround himself at his atelier with young, beautiful models—with whom he is thought to have fathered twelve illegitimate children. As soon as he liked a model’s pose, he would sketc...

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