ANONYMOUS Lot n° 4

ANONYMOUS | Gustav Klimt, Emilie and Helene Flöge, Litzlberg at Attersee, Austria 1906 Image Size: 9,5 x 7,5 cm English: Vintage silver print, contact print on single-weight matte paper 10,7 x 8,5 cm, in good condition. Negative number "4/93 IV" in the upper margin, handwritten annotated "Gustav Klimt Emilie Helene" in ink on the reverse. LITERATURE Agnes Husslein-Arco, Alfred Weidinger, Gustav Klimt & Emilie Flöge. Photographs, Munich 2012, p. 85 (there titled "Gustav Klimt, Emilie and Hermine Flöge"). PROVENANCE Collection Dr Christian Brandstätter, Vienna. Emilie Flöge spent many summers with Gustav Klimt at Lake Attersee from the 1890s on. Her sisters Pauline and Helene, with whom she opened the "Schwestern Flöge" fashion salon at Mariahilfer Strasse 1b in 1904, were often also part of the party. The salon, designed by Josef Hoffmann as a "Gesamtkunstwerk", employed up to 80 seamstresses at the time of its greatest success and catered to the upper bourgeoisie. Helene Flöge was married to Ernst Klimt, the younger brother of Gustav Klimt, with whom he worked in a studio partnership. This private photograph is captivating because of the contrast between the different silhouettes of the three figures, which reveals the emancipatory radicalism of the reform dress - in contrast to the usual dresses worn over a corset. Implicitly, as one might say, this also "quotes" the design element of repeated curved lines, as found in many of Gustav Klimt's compositions. This is the only known print of this photograph. German: Vintage silver gelatin print, contact print on matt thin paper 10,7 x 8,5 cm, in good condition. Negative number "4/93 IV" imprinted in upper margin, handwritten inscription on reverse in ink "Gustav Klimt Emilie Helene". LITERATURE Agnes Husslein-Arco, Alfred Weidinger, Gustav Klimt & Emilie Flöge. Photographs, Munich 2012, p. 85 (there titled "Gustav Klimt, Emilie and Hermine Flöge"). PROVENIENCE Collection Dr. Christian Brandstätter, Vienna. Emilie Flöge spent many summers with Gustav Klimt at Lake Attersee from the 1890s on. She was often accompanied by her sisters Pauline and Helene, with whom she ran the fashion salon "Schwestern Flöge" at Mariahilfer Strasse 1b from 1904. The salon, which was designed by Josef Hoffmann to be a total work of art, employed up to 80 seamstresses in its most successful period and catered to the upper middle classes. Helene Flöge had been married to Ernst Klimt, the younger brother of Gustav Klimt, with whom he worked in a studio partnership, since 1891. This private photograph is striking for the contrast between the different silhouettes of the three figures, which reveals the emancipatory radicalism of the reform dress - in contrast to the usual dresses worn over a corset. Implicitly, as it were, this also "quotes" the design device of repeated curved lines, as found in many of Gustav Klimt's compositions. This is the only known print of this photograph.