[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/36554/fullGirlfriends (Water Serpents I)Freundinnen I1904 (minor amendments in 1907)50 × 20 cm
Watercolour, gouache, pencil, gold, silver, platinum and brass on parchment50770
Klimt’s aquatic beings, described by the artist as “water serpents” or “water nymphs,” seem bewitchingly detached from the real world. In dreamy, flowing movements they float above the ocean floor in the midst of golden seaweed. A glimmering fish stares out at us with a fixed gaze from the lower right of the picture. Influenced by the Symbolist art movement, the artist used these aquatic creatures to symbolize a mystical realm. Klimt created this work on parchment at the height of his Golden Period.Painting101937483828https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-3828/manifest