The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka

Female portraits and nudes, mothers & children, and couples by the three most outstanding painters of Viennese modernism. In the early 20th century, the traditional relationship between the sexes was challenged by a number of social, economic,<br>and philosophical changes. It was above all the incipient<br>development towards gender equity that provoked vehement<br>counter-arguments. On the other hand, sexual liberation can<br>be seen as a common goal of men and women, since they<br>both sought to escape the restrictive moral taboos of the 19th<br>century. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka—then<br>the three most outstanding painters of Viennese modernism—<br>approached the subject matter generally referred to as the<br>"woman question" from slightly different, albeit overlapping<br>perspectives. The book will present an in-depth exploration of<br>these differences and similarities.