Gustav Klimt's 150th Birthday on Saturday, July 14th: Google does it right!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[elleng]

1. YES!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. OOh, my dear elleng!

Your images are so spectacular! Much better than my little one......

Thank you, sweetie!

I love love love his work...

[elleng]

4. Just google images, dear CalPeg!

Hadn't seen bottom 2 before.
THANKS for the info. MAYBE would have seen it later in the day, google ya know, but LOVELY to see it now!

[CTyankee]

3. The Neue Galerie in NYC has a nice Klimt exhibit up now. Adele Bloch Bauer is featured.

I'm going to see it next Thursday!

Just read a terrific new book "The Lady in Gold" about Adele. It is quite fascinating.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. How very cool, my dear CTyankee...

The family history, and the history of what happened to the paintings in WWII, is fascinating.

[CTyankee]

7. some of his portrait subjects (not Adele) were murdered in concentration camps in WW2.

The government of Austria had the effing nerve to claim national patrimony over her portrait to keep it at the Belvedere in Vienna. Adele's family suffered greatly in the Holocaust but survivors claimed the work and they won their case. The claim's basis in U.S. law was tested in the US Supreme Court, but not the ownership. It was a great victory.

Altho the book goes a bit far in the depth of its cast of characters, it was a very satisfying read overall. It helps to sketch out a family/relationship tree at the beginning to keep all the people straight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Ah yes, I heard about that, but had not remembered the details.

Thanks for reminding me of the story. The family did finally have a great victory, as they deserved.

[CTyankee]

14. The survivors got all kinds of grief for selling the works after they won the court case but of

course they belonged to them. Adele was sold to Ron Lauder for $135 million. He has loaned it to the Neue Galerie (don't know if it is a semi permanent deal, tho).

[elleng]

6. HEY, yank!

How ya doing???

[CTyankee]

8. Good. Got back from visiting family on the Vineyard last Sunday.

I couldn't believe how crowded it was there! Hope you and yours are fine!

P.S. is the landscape you showed "poppy field"?

[elleng]

11. Fine.

Wish I'd known you were there, so could have imagined you! You there during big heat-wave?

[CTyankee]

13. I was there from the 3rd to last Sunday. It was pretty warm on Chappy. I was glad I was there!

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. Also, Woody Guthrie's 100th is tomorrow

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Oh, very cool!

It's an artistic weekend!

I love his songs, and guitar playing...

[eridani]

15. I got part of that one on a scarf when I was in Vienna

Wonderful town.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Ah, I loved Vienna!

Glad you got to see it too...

[joeybee12]

16. That is great!

KNR

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Thanks, joeybee12! Glad you liked it...