4960 x 5048 px | 42 x 42,7 cm | 16,5 x 16,8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1908
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From 1900 Klimt had discovered the landscape as the preferred subject of his painting, alongside allegories and portraits. The ritual of annual summer stays in the Salzkammergut was extremely beneficial for the creation of landscapes. In the company of his partner Emilie Flöge and her family, Klimt went to the Attersee for a few weeks every year in July and August. The delightful summer landscape on the shore of the lake offered the master plenty of motifs for his landscape paintings. In addition, Klimt found enough time to go on excursions and hikes. Emilie Flöge, who together with her sisters very successfully ran a large fashion salon in Vienna, also presented some of her self-designed, fashionable creations on the Attersee. In the summer of 1906, Klimt had Emilie Flöge pose in this garden in reform clothes for an essay on clothing models from the Flöge sisters' fashion salon, which he photographed for the magazine “Deutsche Kunst und Decoration”. The outlines of the sunflower prominently placed in the center of the picture in the present section of a meadow landscape are strikingly reminiscent of Emilie Flöge's appearance in her long summer dresses. The art writer Ludwig Hevesi seems to confirm this impression when he writes that Klimt's sunflower "appears like a fairy in love", "whose greenish-gray robe flows down with a passionate shudder". With the knowledge of the fashion photos mentioned, the shape of the sunflower can definitely be associated with Emilie Flöge on a metaphorical level. The self-contained representation of the beautiful but lonely flower would correspond to the never-defined relationship between her and Klimt. Klimt always transformed nature into a shimmering cosmos of colors and shapes. Here nature appears as detached from all transience and as flowed through by the feeling of eternal harmony. One could also see in these works a sublimated design of Eros, which aims at the creation of an unclouded, paradisiacal world Google Arts - Culture
