Gustav Klimt - Portrait of Emilie Flöge 1893

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Emilie Louise Flöge (30 August 1874 in Vienna – 26 May 1952 in Vienna) was an Austrian fashion designer, and businesswoman. She was the life companion of the painter Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge was a member of the Viennese bohemian (Bohemianism) and Fin de siècle circles. She was the life companion of the painter Gustav Klimt. In 1891, Helene, the older sister of Emilie, married Ernst Klimt, the brother of Gustav Klimt. When Ernst died in December 1892, Gustav was made Helene's guardian. At that time Emilie was eighteen years old and Gustav became a frequent guest at the home of her parents, spending the summers with the Flöge family at Lake Attersee.

Cézanne painted bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous
compositions of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. Late in life,
he painted three large-scale female bather groups. In such works, Cézanne
was reinterpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the
landscape by artists such as Titian and Poussin. - art-Cezanne.com

Renoir and Monet began portraying the same landscape in 1869, when they
simultaneously painted at the famous waterside café La Grenouillère (The
Frogpond) at Bougival. This collaboration has often been analyzed and used
to point out the real aesthetic differences between the two artists - Monet,
the painter of light and water, and Renoir, the painter of the human form.
- art-Monet.com

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Gustav Klimt 1862-1918