Emilie Louise Flöge (30 August 1874 – 26 May 1952, Austria, Vienna)

From muse and lifelong companion to painter Gustav Klimt, to fashion innovator and forgotten icon – Emilie Flöge was much more than a character in a painting and research shows us the valuable role she played in Vienna’s social and cultural life in the early 1900’s. So, let's get to know more about this fascinating and complex woman of the Viennese Secession!

Art presented in the video:
0:00:29 - Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Emilie Flöge, 1893
0:00:29 - Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Emilie Flöge, 1902
0:00:29 - Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907-1908
0:01:26 - Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Emilie Flöge, 1891
0:01:26 - Ernst Klimt, The German Renaissance (detail with the portrait of Helene Flöge Klimt), 1891
0:01:26 - Gustav Klimt, Pauline Flöge in Rococo Costume (study for the painting Buffoon in the ad-lib theatre in Rothenburg), 1892-1894
0:02:12 - Wiener Werkstätte (Dagobert Peche), Vase, early 20th century
0:02:12 - Wiener Werkstätte (Koloman Moser), Pair of Deckchairs, 1901
0:02:12 - Wiener Werkstätte (Josef Hoffmann), Brooch for Emilie Flöge, c. 1905
0:06:30 - Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child (detail from Three Ages of Woman), 1905
0:07:04 - Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (detail), 1907-1908
0:07:07 - Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (detail), 1907
0:07:28 - Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Sonja Knips, 1897–1898
0:07:33 - Gustav Klimt Portrait of Fritza Riedler,1906
0:09:31 - Gustav Klimt, Danae, 1907-1908
0:09:32 - Gustav Klimt, Lady with Hat and Feather Boa, 1909
0:09:35 - Gustav Klimt Goldfish, 1902
0:10:26 - Gustav Klimt, Island in the Attersee, 1902

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