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Gustav Klimt, one of the great painters of fin de siècle Austria—and the subject of Helen Mirren’s latest film, Woman in Gold—takes center stage in this passionate and atmospheric debut novel, which reimagines the tumultuous relationship between the Viennese painter and Emilie Flöge, the woman who posed for his masterpiece The Kiss, and whose name he uttered with his dying breath.
Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It is here where the twelve-year-old Emilie meets the controversial libertine and painter. Hired by her bourgeois father for basic drawing lessons, Klimt introduces Emilie to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and inspires her. The Painted Kiss follows Emilie as she blossoms from a naïve young girl to one of Europe's most exclusive couturiers—and Klimt's most beloved model and mistress. A provocative love story that brings to life Vienna's cultural milieu, The Painted Kiss is as compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
- Sales Rank: #239098 in Books
- Published on: 2006-03-07
- Released on: 2006-03-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .70" w x 5.31" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
- ISBN13: 9780743492614
- Condition: New
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From Publishers Weekly
Hickey imagines the bonds between Gustav Klimt and his younger lover—whose name he pronounced with his dying breath—in her expressively written debut. Before Emilie Flöge became the owner of a successful Viennese fashion house and Klimt became a famed, controversial painter, she was a privileged 12-year-old reluctantly taking drawing lessons and he was her starving artist teacher. From her WWII hideaway in the Austrian countryside in 1944, where she has transported Gustav's drawings ("all I could bring from Vienna... [perhaps] the only things of his to survive"), the aged Emilie flashes back to her fin-de-siècle hometown. Hickey traces the changing relationship between Klimt and his protégé from when she first became his art student as an adolescent through their on-again, off-again romance as she matures to their complicated relationship that culminates in the famed painting The Kiss. While the novel bears some obvious similarities to Girl with a Pearl Earring, it doesn't quite have that novel's power. But Hickey's language is sensual, lush and unhurried, and the prose wears its author's research gracefully. (Apr.)
From Booklist
*Starred Review* This first novel, which springs boldly to the reader's attention as an admirably accomplished, beguilingly effortless story, is based on the lives of two actual historical figures. Hickey takes us back to the lush elegance of fin-de-siecle Vienna, "the most beautiful, cosmopolitan city in the world"--back to when the emperor still ruled divinely yet the arts were breaking old barriers. Gustav Klimt, a denizen of Viennese bohemia, has already made a painter's name for himself when a well-to-do businessman commissions him to draw his young daughters' portraits. Thus the lives of this permanent fixture in the world's artistic firmament and his mistress-to-be, Emilie Floge, intersect. Alternating flash-forwards to mid-World War II, when the Old World truly crumbled and Klimt was long dead, frame the story with a perfect nostalgia for the novel's "real" time: the beautifully expressed charting of the growing relationship between Klimt and Emilie, who eventually runs a fashion house in the Austrian capital and dresses all the ladies of the arts world. Hickey possesses a comfortably secure voice in sharing her understanding of the nature of this unsordid affair and her knowledge of the glamorous but teetering-on-the-edge time and place. Brad Hooper
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Review
"[A] decorous...investigation of art and artifice...The Painted Kiss throws [the Klimt] mystery into stark relief."
-- The New York Times
"Hickey's language is sensual, lush, and unhurried...[an] expressively written debut."
-- Publishers Weekly
"[R]ichly atmospheric and haunting."
-- Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light
"A graceful imagining."
-- Kirkus Reviews
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Highly enjoyable read
By Mari V.
I loved this book. The story, the pace, the characters, the way it was written. Everything flowed. I felt connected to the characters and it became the perfect, enjoyable book.
I believe the liberties the author took fitted the story perfectly, and all the characters, even ones that appear for no more than a few pages are very well developed and work to enhance the story.
Although the focus of the story is the relationship between Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge, there are enough insights into his work, his state of mind and historic events to make it a very complete book.
Loved it, and will look forward to reading more from Elizabeth Hickey.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
He's Just Not That Into Her
By Diana Faillace Von Behren
Poor Emilie Floge. Novelist Elizabeth Hickey allows her to tell her story--well, her story as she sees it--of reserved obsession in "The Painted Kiss."
Subject of three of Gustav Klimt's works--she was the sister of his brother Ernst's wife, Helene, Emilie worships Gustav from almost the moment she, as a precocious twelve-year-old, sets eyes on him. Almost twelve years her senior, Klimt regards her with a passion that author Hickey has difficulty defining. After all, no one knows the nature of the relationship with the flamboyant Klimt with this self-assured and successful woman of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna. Were they lovers? Platonic confidantes? Players in an open relationship? Neither married although Klimt had numerous casual and significant sexual relationships with countless women from either end of the social spectrum that resulted in a reported fourteen illegitimate children. Related through marriage and identified as seemingly beloved companions that shared lifelong annual vacations to Lake Attersee, numerous almost daily correspondences and confidences, and a fashion salon that produced Floge/Klimt-designed reform (unstructured requiring no corset) clothing along with Parisian knock-offs, Emilie and Gustav lived the bohemian life during a time of great psychological speculation where the goal of sex according to Freud was pleasure. In "The Painted Kiss," novelist Elizabeth Hickey suggests that while Emilie Floge regarded Gustav Klimt as the lover of her dreams, she was never fully able to solely capture his attentions despite their apparent closeness and the fact that her name was the last word he spoke as he died from pneumonia. Simply put, Klimt's stable of women was as lively as the Spanish Riding School where airs above the ground abound. He had way too many women to explore, paint and devour to be satisfied with only Ms Floge. Sadly, for her he just wasn't into her that way.
Author Hickey tries earnestly to help Emilie understand Gustav's nature and she does a believable job of recreating the torturous insecurity this woman must have felt if she had monogamous feelings for him which he did not share. Floge never married, but Hickey's account of her emotional history, remains, of course, fictional. We have no first hand or third person testimony to collaborate or contradict what actually took place in the minds and hearts of these enigmatic characters. Nonetheless, Hickey uses the Klimt timeline as he creates his highly criticized Beethoven Frieze, secedes from the Viennese Artists' Society and explores the sensual mystery of women in his study of nudes and eroticism and succeeds critically and financially in his Golden Phase to probe the conundrum of the man himself. Emilie acts as main first person narrator. Her story begins at its end in 1944, as she finds herself fleeing Vienna for Attersee as the Russians begin to occupy the city. Time moves forward as she examines her feelings for the deceased Klimt and the preservation of his remarkable body of work and then in retrospect from the moment of her first sighting of him with her young girl's perspective. Interspersed between the aftermath tale of 1944 and Emilie's chronological telling of Klimt's rise to become one of Vienna's most well-known artists, Hickey presents a famous study, drawing or painting and then fleshes out the details behind the work-- she tells of his relationships with various models and mothers of his children and of the creation of his most well-known work, "The Kiss" for which Emilie herself was reputed to pose.
As Hickey attempts to base her novel on known facts which history cannot change, she is left at best with a muddled portrait of a rather unknown woman. Emilie did own a fashion salon with her two sisters. She was Gustav Klimt's friend and was photographed with him at Attersee and in clothing that they designed together. However, this small documented history does not give anyone insight into thoughts and desires. We have little clue as to what Ms Floge's ideas were with regard to the lifestyle options that Klimt embraced through example. Floge was not a writer and did not opine thoughts with regard to sexuality or eroticism; if anything her relaxed clothing tells us that she wanted comfort rather than whale-boned support and was not afraid to invest money (or Klimt's money) in expressing this fact. With little backup, Hickey connects the dots and comes up with a storyline that uses Klimt's creative timeline as a base. Unfortunately, she must use creative license to develop Emilie more fully as her narrator.
What that leaves us with is a novel that declares Emilie Floge and Gustav Klimt as companions that indulge in sex infrequently--but as what? An expression of love? Exercise? Release? If indeed Ms Floge did model for Klimt's "The Kiss," can we interpret this as some sort of declaration of everlasting affection and passion? Or simply that Emilie's features fit with his composition and that the act of creating needed a physical manifestation?
Where does that leave Emilie in all this? She loves but is only loved marginally? Like the wives of architect Frank Lloyd Wright as depicted by T. C. Boyle in "The Women: A Novel" and Nancy Horan in "Loving Frank: A Novel," Klimt's females shrink in the presence of his immense ego. In the world according to Klimt, they act only as muses fueling his creative genius; their bodies supply mystery that he pondered artistically and wished to explore.
Hickey does a descent job with the scant information with which she has to work. Her portrayal of Klimt seems to emulate that of a great artist questioning the new ideas emanating from a new century. Like most long term unmarried men of any era, he deals with his women by seeing them only in a certain way; he does not allow them to touch him deeply. Impulsively, he moves on like a bee from flower to flower breathing deeply of beauty of which he partakes, captures and then escapes. Hickey suggests that Emilie was the only one who touched his heart in any meaningful way even if she can't quite figure out the true essence of their relationship and can only fill in the many blanks with speculation.
Bottom line? "The Painted Kiss" by Elizabeth Hickey attempts to define the relationship between artist Gustav Klimt and his sister-in-law, Emilie Floge. Gallantly, Hickey paints a delightful panorama of fin-de-siecle life that mirrors the timeline of Klimt's artistic accomplishments. The great romance hinted at on the back book cover, however, is fraught with too much speculation, rendering Ms Floge just one of those sad women whose man, as they say, just wasn't into her. Unfortunately, as most of the Floge/Klimt dynamic is a confection of Hickey's imagination, I wonder how much of the real connection I will take away with me. Will I retain only the fiction and none of the facts? It's a good read nonetheless--easy format with free-flowing language that makes for some insightful thinking about the whole man/woman thing. Recommended. Check out Gustav Klimt: From Drawing to Painting to ponder Klimt's art and world. Fascinating.
Diana Faillace Von Behren
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Libby Brooks
A talented writer
Her words flow!
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