"Klimt gives him such a dignity and warmth. It is touching, because you feel this is a person you know." In 2023, an Austrian ...
so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...
Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...
Gustav Klimt’s portrait of an African prince, painted when his people were displayed in a “human zoo,” was first dismissed ...