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Austrian obsession with flower painting from Waldmüller to Klimt at Vienna's Belvedere
Throughout the ages, flower pictures have been imbued with powerful symbolism. In nineteenth-century Vienna, flower painting attained an incomparable quality, variety, and significance. Indeed, flowers are important in the oeuvres of artists ranging from Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller through to Gustav Klimt. The exhibition "Say it with flowers!" in the Orangery at the Lower Belvedere takes a look…