Female, British Artist ‘Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’ Who Influenced Klimt’s Iconic Work!

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by Anura Guruge
on August 7, 2021

Click to ENLARGE & ogle. Is it a Klimt? What do YOU think? Note there is no gold, anywhere, to be seen.

These are her work. Not Klimt’s.

Images from Wikipedia.

Click to ENLARGE & read here. Wikipedia: Margaret_Macdonald_Mackintosh.

I saw the painting (at very top) a few days ago on Facebook. I have been subscribing, for years, with great good fortune, to the ‘Female Artists in History‘ page. This is how I made this discovery. I immediately started Googling her & Klimt. BINGO!

She (1864 to 1933) & Klimt (1862 to 1918) were contemporaries (while he was alive, prior to his untimely death at 55). Though she did most of her work in Britain, starting in 1900 her work was getting shown in Vienna — where Klimt lived. That is how Klimt became acquainted with her work. This article explains it quite well.

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I think this is neat. I had no idea. Check it out.

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