Die Erfindung der Erotik

Vienna around 1900 transformed Europe’s view of the body, nudity, and desire. In the works of Klimt, Schiele, and Kokoschka, eroticism shed its mythological pretext and became a promise, a provocation, a scandal. Their paintings shattered the constraints of a society that repressed its desires while simultaneously being dominated by them. The film asks: Did these artists liberate the body, or did they merely make it accessible in a new way?