Emilie Flöge
Gustav Klimt (1902)
Gustav Klimt’s Emilie Flöge stages a modern identity as a work of <strong>design</strong> as much as portraiture: a columnar figure, hand on hip, radiates self-possession within a field of spirals, dots, and gold squares. The circular, flowered fan behind the head acts as a <strong>modern halo</strong>, collapsing depth and elevating presence in the Secessionist spirit of the <strong>Gesamtkunstwerk</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
