Editing Gustav Klimt (section)

===Gustav Klimt: ''Das Werk''===
[[File:Preparatory design - Klimt - Stoclet Palace.jpg|thumb|Klimt often used decorative patterns in his paintings. ''Die Umarmung'' ("The Embrace"), the [[Stoclet Palace]] in [[Brussels]] (1905–1909)|321x321px]]
The only folio set produced in Klimt's lifetime, ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'', was published initially by [[Hugo Othmar Miethke]] (of [[Galerie Miethke]], Klimt's exclusive gallery in Vienna) from 1908 to 1914 in an edition of 300, supervised personally by the artist. The first thirty-five editions (I-XXXV) each included an original drawing by Klimt, and the next thirty-five editions (XXXVI–LXX) each with a facsimile signature on the title page.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/25083387 |title=Das Werk von Gustav Klimt |work=liveauctioneers |access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref> Fifty images depicting Klimt's most important paintings (1893–1913) were reproduced using [[collotype]] lithography and mounted on a heavy, cream-colored [[wove paper]] with [[deckle edge]]s. Thirty-one of the images (ten of which are multi-coloured) are printed on ''[[Chine-collé]]''. The remaining nineteen are high-quality [[halftones|halftone]] prints. Each piece was marked with a unique signet—designed by Klimt—which was impressed into the wove paper in gold metallic ink. The prints were issued in groups of ten to subscribers, in unbound black paper folders [[Paper embossing|embossed]] with Klimt's name. Because of the delicate nature of [[collotype]] [[lithography]], as well as the necessity for multi-coloured prints (a feat difficult to reproduce with collotypes), and Klimt's own desire for perfection, the series that was published in mid-1908 was not completed until 1914.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.1stdibs.co.uk/art/prints-works-on-paper/figurative-prints-works-on-paper/gustav-klimt-kk-hof-und-staatsdruckerei-ho-miethke-das-werk-folio-three-ages-woman-collotype-print/id-a_2051753/ |title=''Das werk Gustav Klimts'' |publisher=1stDibs |access-date=16 December 2019}}</ref>

Each of the fifty prints was categorized among five themes:
# '''Allegorical''' (which included multi-coloured prints of ''The Golden Knight'', 1903 and ''The Virgin'', {{Circa|1912}})
# '''Erotic-Symbolist''' (''Water Serpents I'' and ''[[Water Serpents II]]'', both c. 1907–08 and ''The Kiss'', c. 1908)
# '''Landscapes''' (''Farm Garden with Sunflowers'', 1907) 
# '''Mythical or Biblical''' (''Pallas Athena'', 1898; ''Judith and The Head of Holofernes'', 1901; and ''Danaë'', c. 1908)
# '''Portraits''' (''Emilie Flöge'', 1902)

The monochrome collotypes as well as the halftone works were printed with a variety of coloured inks ranging from sepia to blue and green. Emperor [[Franz Joseph I of Austria]] was the first to purchase a folio set of ''Das Werk Gustav Klimts'' in 1908.