W&K
WIENERROITHER & KOHLBACHER
Austria, United States
W&K Gallery, Strauchgasse 2, 1010 Vienna
W&K Palais, Renngasse 4, 1010 Vienna Shepherd
W&K Galleries, 58 E 79th Street, New York, NY 10075
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W&K – Wienerroither & Kohlbacher was founded in Vienna in 1997 and specialises in masterpieces of international modernism and German expressionism.
The gallery focuses on works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, E.L. Kirchner, George Grosz and Lyonel Feininger. The program has been expanded to include Austrian post-war artists such as Günter Brus, Franz West and Elke Silvia Krystufek.
Since 2013, W&K has also been represented in New York as Shepherd W&K Galleries, and with the baroque Schönborn-Batthyány Palace in Vienna, W&K offers a third, 8,000 square metre exhibition space for the presentation of large-format, contemporary positions.
W&K is a participant in TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York.
Gustav KLIMT
(1862 – Vienna – 1918)
Seated nude from the front
Around 1910
Blue crayon on paper
22 x 14 5/8 inch
Verso inscribed: von Gustav Klimt gezeichnet Georg Klimt Strobl
Cat. rais. no. 3623
In around 1910, Klimt also changed the type of woman he preferred to draw.
This model, drawn in blue crayon, takes up the whole seat in a provocative, widely spread pose. From an abstract point of view, the interlocking forms result in a tense interaction between patterned and empty planes. Klimt emphasizes the realistic, even anti-aesthetic sides of his model in succinct outlines; the woman scrutinizes her viewer with a challenging gaze.
This drawing follows on from a group of studies showing crouching female figures with tilted heads positioned on ‘islands’ and representing grief. These studies were created in the context of the painting Death and Life (Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt: Die Zeichnungen. 1904–1912, vol. II [Salzburg 1982], cat. rais. nos. 1819–1863).
Marian Bisanz-Prakken
Provenance
Private collection, Vienna.
Exhibition
– Klimt und Shunga. Explizit Erotisches aus Wien und Japan, Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See March 19 – June 19, 2016.
– Secretly, Greatly, Eul Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, 26.01.-17.03.2018.
– Gustav Klimt, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), 14.10.2018 – 06.01.2019.
– Klinger, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Max Klinger’s death, 6.3.-16.8.2020.
Literature
– Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen Nachtrag 1878-1918, vol. IV, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1989, Cat. rais. no. 3623.
– Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt. Drawings/Zeichnungen, Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (Edt.), Vienna 2012, cat. no. 21.
– Alfred Weidinger, Klimts Aktzeichnungen und Shunga in: Klimt und Shunga. Explizit Erotisches aus Wien und Japan, exh. cat., Horncastl M./Schreiber D.J. (edt.), Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Feldafing 2016, p. 53. (illus.).
– Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Gustav Klimt. Drawings, Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (edt.), Vienna 2018, cat. no. 46.
– Philipsen/Bauer-Friedrich/Büche (ed.), Gustav Klimt & Hugo Henneberg. Zwei Künstler der Wiener Sezession, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) 2018, p. 119, cat. no. 54.
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