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Serena (Szeréna) Pulitzer Lederer (20 May 1867 in – 27 March 1943 ) was an Austro-Hungarian art collector and the spouse of the industrial magnate August Lederer, close friend of Gustav Klimt and instrumental in the constitution of the collection of Klimt's art pieces.
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943) Gustav Klimt Austrian. 1899. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 829. Beautiful and stylish, Serena Pulitzer Lederer was a star of turn-of-the-century Viennese society. For this portrait, commissioned by her husband, the industrialist August Lederer, Klimt employed soft, sinuous brushstrokes to ...
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943) (1899) by Gustav Klimt The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Serena Lederer's portrait can be regarded as early evidence of the mastery that Klimt displayed...
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943) (1899) by Gustav Klimt The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his female portraits, Klimt's creative techniques vary in frequency and speed. This is not the case...
Beautiful and stylish, Serena Pulitzer Lederer was a star of turn-of-the-century Viennese society. For this portrait, commissioned by her husband, the industrialist August Lederer, Klimt...
The portrait is chiefly remarkable, however, for its similarity to works by Whistler. Until he went to London in 1906, Klimt would only have seen Whistler's work in black and white reproductions, yet the two paintings are very close in terms of composition, colouring and technique.
Although Viennese industrialist August Lederer [1857-1936] and his wife Serena, née Pulitzer [1892-1943] assembled a collection of old master paintings and objects, they are best known for their patronage of the Vienese Secession artist Gustav Klimt.
