A portrait of a young woman by Gustav Klimt that was long believed to be lost was sold at an auction in Vienna on Wednesday for 30 million euros (£25.7 million). The Austrian modernist artist ...
conjures visions of heated debates amongst the likes of Sigmund Freud and Leon Trotsky alongside paint-splattered easels belonging to Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Vienna thrums with culture and ...
Klimt was Schiele’s mentor. Both are Austrian, and both are icons of an age when Vienna was cutting-edge and last-gasp, a hub of so much creativity and the center of an empire in extremis.