Gustav Klimt's "Amalie Zuckerkandl"

Video Transcript

"The next painting from Gustav Klimt is Amalie Zuckerkandl, it's a portrait of her, and this is an unfinished portrait by him, because of his death. Amalie Zuckerkandl was the friend of Teresa Bloch-Bauer, and it's important because the family, Bloch-Bauer was one of the patrons of Klimt, and this painting was paid by Mr. Bloch-Bauer, so to say he invited the friend of his wife for this portrait which was never finished. The interesting thing about the painting is that the woman facing to the viewer exactly and so she's sitting in the middle of the painting, so it's a frontal portrait which was very popular in that time. And we know a lot painting, lots of portraits from Klimt as well in this composition. What we can see that the light colors which he used, it's really, it's characteristic for his past years, and it was made in 1917, began in 1917, and the sharp outline is what he used to isolate the woman from the background. But it's, how to say, unfortunately, he didn't finish it, so we could see from this painting that he used light colors as well, not only deep golden or dark colors."