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Gustav Klimt
1898-1899
Object numberGKZ445
Strobl-Nr.Strobl 445
Künstler:in
Gustav Klimt
(Wien 1862 - 1918 Wien)
Dargestellt
Serena Lederer
(Budapest 1867 - 1943 Budapest)
Date1898-1899
Dimensions45 × 30,5 cm
MediumSchwarze Kreide auf Papier
Markingsr.u. Nachlaßstempel
Besitzer:in
British Museum
Inv. Nr. British Museum1974,0720.34
Lugt1575
Exhibitionsehemalige:r Besitzer:in1918 Nachlass Gustav Klimt (Wien 1918)ehemalige:r Besitzer:in Erich Lederer (Wien 1896 - 1985 Genf)ehemalige:r Besitzer:inbis 1974 Piccadilly Gallery (London, 1953 - 2007)Besitzer:inab 1974 British Museum
Bildtext
London, British Museum, 2022: This drawing belongs to a group of studies for the same portrait now distributed between the Albertina and the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. It appears to represent the penultimate stage in the evolution of the design, preceding the squared sketch in the Albertina; the other preliminary drawings depict the sitter from a frontal position and then with her arms bent behind her back. Klimt's economy of line distinguishes his draughtsmanship from that of his Viennese contemporaries, who practiced in a more academic and highly finished manner; a closer affinity exists with the work of Toulouse-Lautrec whose influence became quite explicit during the latter part of Klimt's career.
The portrait of Serena Lederer (formerly collection of Erich Lederer, Geneva; now Metropolitan Museum of Art) was first exhibited at a Vienna Secession showing of 1901. It marked the beginning of a long and profitable relationship between Klimt and the industrialist August Lederer, who amassed the most important private collection of his work in Vienna. Klimt was to paint two further family portraits in 1914 and 1915, of Baroness Bachofen-Echt, Serena Lederer's daughter (Collection of Erich Lederer, Geneva) and of her mother Charlotte Pulitzer (destroyed by fire 1945). Lederer installed the reviled ceiling painting 'Philosophy' in a room sepcially designed by Hoffmann, together with a number of Klimt's other controversial public works.
The portrait of Serena Lederer (formerly collection of Erich Lederer, Geneva; now Metropolitan Museum of Art) was first exhibited at a Vienna Secession showing of 1901. It marked the beginning of a long and profitable relationship between Klimt and the industrialist August Lederer, who amassed the most important private collection of his work in Vienna. Klimt was to paint two further family portraits in 1914 and 1915, of Baroness Bachofen-Echt, Serena Lederer's daughter (Collection of Erich Lederer, Geneva) and of her mother Charlotte Pulitzer (destroyed by fire 1945). Lederer installed the reviled ceiling painting 'Philosophy' in a room sepcially designed by Hoffmann, together with a number of Klimt's other controversial public works.
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