firemaiden
First: links to a few important websites:
1. Beethoven Frieze - offical site: A very large portion of the deck has been adapted from the "Beethoven Frieze" - a series of allegorical paintings meant to illustrate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Here is the website of the "Sezession" building (name of the movement in Painting that Klimt is associated with) where the paintings are housed. The site shows how the paintings are arranged in situ, gives a synopsis, explanation of each section, symbol by symbol.
2. "Strokes of Gustav" - a University of Virginia hosted site, which gives some VERY high quality scans to many paintings and several drawings.
3. Le Monde des Arts French website, section dedicated to Klimt; more very high quality scans.
4. Jurisprudence, Philosophy, and Medicine
A (Japanese?) site showing black and white reproductions of all three paintings. This is the only site I have been able to find which shows all three. Many many of the cards (the really gross ones) were adapted from three most controversial paintings, created for the University of Vienna. The original canvasses no longer exist, having been burned in 1945. However the original studies for Philosophy and for Medicine do exist.
5. Kunsthistorische Museum Vienna
Several cards are taken from Klimt's Paintings in the Lunettes and Spandrels of the Great Staircase of the Vienna Kunsthistorische Museum. This is the museum's official website, and offers photographs of all the murals, as well as links to their original sketches. FIVE STARS
6. "Gustav Klimt Museum"
Another site with VERY high quality scans, and some wonderful photographs of Klimt himself. Note especially the photo with his cat
1. Beethoven Frieze - offical site: A very large portion of the deck has been adapted from the "Beethoven Frieze" - a series of allegorical paintings meant to illustrate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Here is the website of the "Sezession" building (name of the movement in Painting that Klimt is associated with) where the paintings are housed. The site shows how the paintings are arranged in situ, gives a synopsis, explanation of each section, symbol by symbol.
2. "Strokes of Gustav" - a University of Virginia hosted site, which gives some VERY high quality scans to many paintings and several drawings.
3. Le Monde des Arts French website, section dedicated to Klimt; more very high quality scans.
4. Jurisprudence, Philosophy, and Medicine
A (Japanese?) site showing black and white reproductions of all three paintings. This is the only site I have been able to find which shows all three. Many many of the cards (the really gross ones) were adapted from three most controversial paintings, created for the University of Vienna. The original canvasses no longer exist, having been burned in 1945. However the original studies for Philosophy and for Medicine do exist.
5. Kunsthistorische Museum Vienna
Several cards are taken from Klimt's Paintings in the Lunettes and Spandrels of the Great Staircase of the Vienna Kunsthistorische Museum. This is the museum's official website, and offers photographs of all the murals, as well as links to their original sketches. FIVE STARS
6. "Gustav Klimt Museum"
Another site with VERY high quality scans, and some wonderful photographs of Klimt himself. Note especially the photo with his cat