sisterMAG49 – Gustav Klimt: The Kiss

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The Year 1907

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The year 1907 What was happening during the years in which our main artwork for this issue, Klimt’s »The Kiss« was created? What was in the news, what was occupying people’s minds, and which developments determined daily life or not? In our series »The Year X« we want to take a closer look at certain years and fill the numbers with life. All the different areas of life play a role here: politics and history, arts, meteorology, the public sphere. We reconstruct the historical context of the artwork to paint the bigger picture. In this issue: The year 1907. 90


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