The Bauhaus, a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919, informed the aesthetic of much of our contemporary environment, influencing everything from housing developments to furniture and websites....

When in 1909 the architect Adolf Loos offered to help the young Viennese painter Oskar Kokoschka launch his career, he devised a plan intended to earn his protege at the very least as much as he was then making from the design of postcards and other illustrated material....

Gustav Klimt\'s work brilliantly negotiates the borders between traditional and modern, figurative and non-figurative art. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction....