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Die Kleinen Geister (The Little Ghosts)
The Die Kleinen Geister Series was a collection looking at Vienna in 1908. My homage to the Secessionist movement, with my contemporary twist on Schiele and Klimt. The story focuses on the elements of social and political upheaval in the city at the time. The decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Hapsburgs. A time when the grand cafes in the city played host to Freud, Marx, Hitler, etc simultaneously.
At the turn of that century, there were more prostitutes per capita in Vienna than any other Western European city.
They were woven into the fabric of all stratas of society- accepted, but not acknowledged. They wandered through alleys, cafes, houses and palaces- seemingly invisible. Hence Die Kleinen Geister- (the little ghosts)
Eventually there would be change, with the suffragettes in Britain etc, and the out break of war would change the political landscape of the city forever.