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So last painting from Gustav Klimt is Adam and Eve. And this is unfortunately also unfinished
because of his death in 1918. We can see in the foreground of the painting Eve and behind
her stands Adam. And in a kind of an explanation, it means that Adam has no power, only the
woman power from Eve comes. But what is also recognizable on this painting that he grabbed
back to the old tradition of painting Adam and Eve in life size, full body to the old
German and Netherlandish paintings like Van Eyck or other German painters from the 15th,
and other German painters from the 15th century. And it has the message that after the creation
Adam and Eve were completely naked and standing lonely in the nature. It shows not only the
woman power of Eve but the loneliness of the human person in the nature