Sármány-Parsons - Viennese painting at the turn af the century

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Ilona Sármány-Parsons - Viennese painting at the turn af the century.

(Klimt, Gerstl, Kokoschka, Schiele and others).

The accelerating decay of the last twenty-five years of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was the improbable background for a sudden and unexpected flowering of genius in art.

What lay behind this explosion of human creativity, which brought to birth innumerable great works of art?

How could it happen that, in an Empire dying on its feet, the prevailing gloom should be pierced by a sudden flash of cosmic energy and optimism, so that it seemed for a moment as though the world could be totally transformed and an earthly paradise created?

The present work aims to evoke the atmosphere of the time, and to penetrate its veiled reality through discussion of the works of art it produced

Budapest 1991 1st. , 136p., with 48 coloured plates. 21 x 19 cm. Hardcover + d.j. NEW.

Voor de echte kunstliefhebber: Prachtig en zeldzaam kunstboek over de Weense schilderkunst rond 1900