The Modern Art Notes Podcast

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights the drawings of Gustav Klimt as presented in “The Magic of Line,” a survey exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum on view through September 23. Joining me to discuss Klimt’s works on paper is Albertina curator Marian Bisanz-Prakken, who organized the show.

Bisanz-Prakken notes these are studies for Longing for Happiness, a part of Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, but he also used the forms he developed here in the erotic Watersnakes II.

Bisanz-Prakken oversees the Gustav Klimt drawings catalogue raisonne project. At the Albertina she is the curator of Dutch drawings (she has published numerous articles on Rembrandt’s drawings) as well as the curator for turn-of-the-century Austrian works on paper.

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Image: Gustav Klimt, Two Studies of a Reclining Draped Figure, 1901. Collection of the Albertina, Vienna.