Klimt portrayed everything vertically. In this regard, this is such a revealing picture, plus a frame. Again, the frame is part of a work of art. So, the 90s, pay attention to this, the moment when he became an internationally... when he became an artist recognized in Austria, received a gold medal, had prestige, money, and was considered the main official artist... At that very moment, his main girlfriend appeared in his life. It is also worth saying a few words about the very personal life of Klimt. Klimt is a man who had never had children, a man who had never had a single wife. But, as soon as he had died, fourteen children appeared and everyone wanted to share the inheritance. Moreover, five more wives who also wanted to participate in this appeared. And Klimt all his life was an undisguised erotomaniac, an undisguised hunter for female passion. He was always in women's society, there was always a kaleidoscope of women around him, women came to him themselves, he courted some of them. He is said to have been very charismatic in life, so it was not difficult, as they say. And there were always many, many women around him. And none of them were with him for the rest of his life, except for one girl who was with him from the moment they met in '91 until the end of his days. It was Emilie Flöge. She was the main woman of Klimt. In fact, she was the only woman except his mother and sisters who was with him until the end of his days. I need to tell you a little story about her right away. In the 90s, there was Hermann Flöge. This is one of Vienna's wealthy entrepreneurs of that time, the owner of sugar factories. He had three daughters. And he wanted to give them gifts, portraits. Well, at the end of the 19th century, if you wanted to give somebody a gift, it should have been a portrait. And in Vienna at the end of the 19th century, if you wanted to give somebody a portrait as a gift, then this should have been Klimt. So, it was a logical chain. That is, Klimt was... he was never shy about commercial orders. Therefore, for him it was always... Yes, especially if there was a lot of money. And people were ready to pay him. And Hermann Flöge ordered a portrait from him. And then there was a craft society of artists. Ernst Klimt, you remember, the brother, and Gustav Klimt, and their friend. Hermann Flöge ordered portraits of his daughters from the artists. And then there was almost a double date, when Ernst Klimt met Helen Flöge, and Emilie Flöge met Gustav Klimt. Ernst and Helen got married a year later, they had a baby. And Gustav began the epic with Emilie. Why am I speaking so clumsy? Epic, relationship... Because this was the main mystery of Klimt's personal life. It was not clear what had happened between him and this woman. It is completely incomprehensible. Firstly, he was silent about this all his life, and secondly, she didn't normally tell what happened between them, but from that moment, from the 90s, she was 17 years old then... Well, they were meeting each other for a couple of years, they were talking, and from about '97 they spent each year together. They spent every summer together; they were always next to each other. She was also his muse. I'll tell you about it right away. This was a woman, this was a girl who created a women's clothing studio at the beginning of the 20th century. And this studio had exactly the same prestige in Vienna as Gustav Klimt. All the girls in Vienna wanted to dress in the Flöge's studio. And these were absolutely avant-gardish dresses. These were very avant-gardish dresses. I am not a fashion historian, of course, but at that time it was considered an incredible thing, the avant-garde style. Such a simple cut of a dress like a hoodie. It was very avant-gardish at the moment when all the suits were fitted, custom-made, that was just... wow. The same as Klimt's painting. So, she and her sisters founded a studio, and all of Vienna dressed there. Moreover, I will show you, and you will notice that in fact Gustav Klimt dressed the same way. I will show you. It was about the same. Moreover, all the girls of Gustav Klimt, absolutely all the women of Gustav Klimt dressed like this. Moreover, Gustav Klimt himself made sketches for these dresses, or rather, he and his friends made the interior of the workshop, where it all happened. That is, firstly, she herself was a very powerful artistic character, and she was very much spiritually connected with him. Moreover, most likely, but not clear... They had romance. That is, she was always with him, there was definitely something between them - spiritual love, carnal love, whether she was his friend, companion, muse - it was not clear, nobody gave an answer, but it was very... A remarkable fact... By the way, here is the portrait that he painted during their first meeting, she was seventeen years old. The remarkable fact is that as soon as Klimt died, he died in the year '18, I immediately start from the end, he died in the year '18, actually, we can basically stop here. He passed away, and at that moment Emilie... She was not his wife, there was nothing like that, but now he was dying, and she would live to the 50s, but she never had a husband or children. He passed away and from that moment there was never an official man next to her. Here there were some hints that they were very close. Again, here is to understand life. I'll talk a little bit about Gustav’s workshop. This was such a brothel. He was always passionate about women... but he was always spiritually connected with her. In fact, Klimt answered with his painting why he was so much spiritually connected with her. As I said, Klimt always answered to the questions with the help of paintings. He was painting her portrait. They had known each other for a long time, she was already close to him, he painted her portrait. And again, I ask you to remember how she looked, she looked self-sufficient and independent, because all the other women of Gustav Klimt were always facing your eyes, they were trying to charm you, to seduce, to cause you aggression, to cause your emotions. They were doing something with you. And we will look, they always did something for you. Here she does not really need you. She's not particularly focused on you. She is self-sufficient here, I repeated, but now I will explain why. Emilie Flöge, we should understand what kind of person she was, what kind of temper she had. At that moment, she felt like a modern woman, a modern girl. You understand that at the end of the 19th century a woman’s place in society was a little different, especially in the conservative Austro-Hungarian Empire a woman didn’t have that position in the society that she has now. Emilie Flöge - everyone speaks of her like that, in this regard, she was much more opened than Gustav was, she had always the worldview of a modern woman. She was, as they say, strong and independent. She was always an identity, a person, she always put herself on equal footing with men, she created a studio that was in demand. So, you need to understand that you need to create a studio, you need to make clothes, and so on. She was strong, and she herself was of interest. You understand that therefore Gustav Klimt was an artist to whom naked women come to the workshop every day, that is, young models, he was always around them. And here was her strength, her independence... her motion, her attitude, she was like... "I am what I am" with a capital "I". It seems to me, firstly, this was in this portrait, and secondly, it’s why she was with him until the end of his days. Well, you know, Gustav Klimt had such a famous legend as almost every famous person had, what he said before his death. You know that all the great people said something important before dying. Well, you understood where there was usually a lie and where there was a truth in these words. Well, it is well known about Einstein that he said something, but the woman did not understand, because she did not speak German and so on. That is, in this regard, Gustav Klimt had the same thing. And he said... Rumors said that he called Emilie Flöge, it made a good point about her situation. And so that you completely understand why she was so powerful, the main artist of Vienna painted her portrait for free and gave it to her... Emilie Flöge refused it. She said that it was not very good there, and she refused, she didn't accept a portrait from the main Viennese artist. This portrait would eventually be bought by the Vienna National Museum six years later, but she herself did not want to accept it, and this highlighted her very well. Again, why I’m sure that... I’m not sure what had happened between them, but I’m sure that they constantly interacted, because every summer they were photographed. Moreover, do you remember the first photo of Emilie Flöge? This photo was taken by Gustav Klimt. And now we notice that the dress looked similar. Actually, it was probably similar. Well, it was a unified style. And then they saw each other every year. I ask you to note that the very personality of Gustav Klimt... How simple he was in this respect, he was all in art and, moreover, fun is fun, but he did never waste his art on other things. That is, you know, at the beginning of the 20th century, artists were already engaged in advertising, in photography, trying to do something somewhere. But he wasn't. This was a man who fully devoted himself to art, fully dedicated himself to the material, and was all in it, in this regard, it was very important. By the way, here are the sketches of dresses that he created for her. Here she was wearing it everywhere. And what’s even more interesting, every summer they... or rather, he created a very interesting painting, which is very little talked about, in my...