Portrait Of Johanna Staude Is An Unfinished Painting By Gustav Klimt Editorial Photo

Portrait of Johanna Staude is an unfinished painting by Gustav Klimt, depicting Johanna Staude, an Austrian divorcée who also modeled for Egon Schiele.She described her occupation as language teacher, and later, as a painter, although no works of her own are known.The Financial Times has described the Klimt painting as the culmination of his development as a portraitist, portraying "a new, post-war woman, self-aware, intelligent, modern, staring boldly out at us, sporting a fashionable short hair-cut and black feather boa". The painting was acquired by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in 1963