Amalie zuckerkandl biography of martin
Amalie ("Maltschi") Zuckerkandl, the sitter in this portrait, was a personal friend of Teresa ("Teddi") Bloch-Bauer's.
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The Artist's Nieces, Elizabeth and Maja, Romako (1873) |
'Facing the Modern' - the reference to ‘modernity’ in the title of the National Gallery's exhibition on the portrait in Vienna in 1900 has occasioned some comment.
Richard Dorment in the Telegrapheven goes so far as to suggest that it should have been entitled 'Middle Class Portraiture in Vienna from 1867 to 1918', were it not for marketing considerations - a comment which seems to imply the distinctly uninteresting nature of the nineteenth century and the bourgeoisie when compared with rebellious and groundbreaking modernity.
Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (unfinished), Klimt (1917-8) |
It almost seems as if the exhibition organisers agree with him.
The images which they’ve selected to promote the exhibition – Egon Schiele’s Self Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder (1912) and Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl (unfinished) (1917-18) – ar