Weidinger thinks that a patron had commissioned both artists but ultimately chose Matsch’s version, which explains why ...

The portrait displays a young woman in a frontal pose against a red background wearing a cape decorated with flowers around her shoulders. The sitter posed for Klimt in nine visits to his Heitzing ...

In particular, the use of symbolic floral motifs in the background establishes a stylistic principle that Klimt would develop consistently from this point onward.” Similar symbolic floral motifs ...

For Wienerroither, the rediscovered work is a key painting in Klimt's oeuvre. "The floral background of the painting is already modern and is also reminiscent of the portrait of Sonja Knips ...

He links the work stylistically to Klimt’s 1897–98 portrait of Sonja Knips, which hangs at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and also shows its subject against an abstract background with floral ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...

While Matsch depicted the prince head-on against a solid green background, Klimt painted him from the side against a floral backdrop. Flowers were a common motif in Klimt’s early work ...