Depictions of Women and their Sexuality in the Work of Modernist Artists: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele A feminist approach on how the female body served as a sexual object in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

Siobhan Dillon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Austria
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The topic of this dissertation of this dissertatation takes a feminist approach to the period of early 1900s during the turn of the century in Vienna. The focus of the work will be on two specific artists in conjunction: Gustav Klimt and his contemporary Egon Schiele, examining approaches to depictions of women have allowed me to gain a wider insight on the male dominated society constructed for Viennese women. A biographical point of view on each artist and an in depth analysis of their works portraying women, their sexuality and societal gender roles allow the viewer to understand the way in which both artists have developed modern, but restricted representations of women. Klimt and Shiele moved forward and broke ground with innovative imagery using women, but unfortunatley failed to solve the misogyny of the finde-siecle.

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Depictions of Women and their Sexuality in the Work of Modernist Artists: Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele A feminist approach on how the female body served as a sexual object in fin-de-siecle Vienna.