The making of Gustav Klimt's THE WOMAN IN GOLD by Johanna Schwarzbeck - LONG VERSION from madonna mona Watch Video
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Description: The Woman in GoldnnThe Woman in Gold, also known as The Mona Lisa of Austria, is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece. Having admired the symbolic art of Klimt since my working days as a fine art restorer at Vienna’s prestigious Conservation Institute (Bundesdenkmalamt) in the 1980’s, I conceived the idea to recreate the jewel of his gilded period with an interpretive lens on the looming darkness of the Holocaust and World War II.nnAs a native of Austria, Salzburg, I have developed