Artist: Gustave Klimt
Date: 1907
Size: 50 x 20 cm
Technique: Watercolor
The portrayal of mermaid-like hybrid water beings was highly popular in the art of symbolism. Themes such as Odysseus and the sirens, the neirads, Ophelia, and Melusina provided an opportunity to convey seductive female beauties who demonstrate the nakedness of the female body with open eroticism. Mermaid-like water beings which loll and drift in the water with abandon were first portrayed by Klimt in 1898 in the small-format painting
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