ARTWORK:
A Gustav Klimt has been discovered in someone’s attic, and it is a “keeper.” Once believed destroyed by the Nazis and their evil views on what they perceived as “degenerate art,” this gem of both European and African history lives on to inspire future generations.
It is a portrait of visiting, Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona from Ghana. At the time Ghana was a colony of England. He came to study in London and took a trip across Europe. Visiting Paris, Amsterdam, Milano, and Berlin. Also, making stops in Budapest and Vienna, where he met Gustav Klimt. He posed for Klimt and in return the artist did two portraits. One he gave the prince (mini) and this large format one he sold to a wealthy German-Austrian family. He also did nudes of the prince but they were destroyed by the Nazis along with his nudes of Caucasian men of German, Austrian, French, and Italian ethnicity. Other male nudes and erotic couple pictures were taken by the Nazis and placed in storage, for possibly future use, were destroyed when Allied bombs hit the warehouse. Let’s not forget the horrors of the Nazis and their war on art and free thought too. History is starting to repeat itself, especially in America, Russia, and Iran too.
Kisses from PARIS!!!
ABOUT (Courtesy of CNN, International):
“An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery.
The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona — a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, in what is Ghana today — was painted in 1897 and depicts the prince in profile against loose brushstrokes of florals.”
You can learn more here: https://cnn.it/41BTnZK