Gustav Klimt: Pallas Athene (1898)
Öl auf Leinwand | Oil on canvas
From the current exhibition "Secessions" in the Wien Museum
www.wienmuseum.at/secessions_klimt_stuck_liebermann
"Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Secession in 1897. [...] The group's symbol was Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of just causes, wisdom, and the arts—of whom Klimt painted [t]his radical version in 1898."* It is, so to speak, a declaration of war on the conservative forces.**
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt
** Paraphrased from the information board in the museum
Gustav Klimt: Pallas Athene (1898)
Öl auf Leinwand | Oil on canvas
From the current exhibition "Secessions" in the Wien Museum
www.wienmuseum.at/secessions_klimt_stuck_liebermann
"Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Secession in 1897. [...] The group's symbol was Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of just causes, wisdom, and the arts—of whom Klimt painted [t]his radical version in 1898."* It is, so to speak, a declaration of war on the conservative forces.**
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt
** Paraphrased from the information board in the museum