Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) knew to show the spirit of the splendor lived Austria in 1900 in a single box, but resigned to be a mere chronicler of what the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called "the golden age of the middle-class security". He didn't know anything about fame and gave women that can be found in his paintings, magic and irresistible, ideals of femme fatale, but with soul of mythical beings connected with pleasure and excess. The men, could not enter the scene before authentic them DueƱas in a master plan. Austro-Hungarian society lived in absolute harmony, a splendor numbed with artistic manifestations as correct as beautiful, always consistent with Historicism. Forced female containment was one reflection more of the sexual repression of the Viennese, an ideal breeding ground for Sigmund Freud who developed in those years s sexual theories on the origin of 'The kiss' neuroses (1908), Summit of the 'Golden phase' of Klimt's work ...