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Presentation of the editor The painter with golden fingers Vienna, 1907. Gustav Klimt visits the Bloch-Bauer home. This Viennese upper-middle class couple and the painter seem to share a deep friendship. It must be said that six years earlier, when the scandal of his painting La Médecine put three-quarters of the professors at the University of Vienna on his back, Adèle and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer were among the only ones to recognize his genius. Visiting his workshop, sharing his daily life, they gradually became friends. Today, Ferdinand asks him for the honor of painting a portrait of his wife. Flattered and grateful, Klimt promises to cover her in gold ... literally. Jean-Luc Cornette and Marc-Renier immerse us in the carnal and symbolist universe of the master of Viennese Art Nouveau. Fantasizing at times the hallucinatory dreams of the painter from whom he would have drawn his inspiration, this album offers us a journey to the sources of beauty, between dream and reality. Authors biography Screenwriter and designer, born in Belgium in 1966, Jean-Luc Cornette attended the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels, then published his first boards in 1989 in Spirou. In 1995, he made his first album Maxime Maximum. He continues the Les Enfants Terribles series with Casterman editions. At the end of the 1990s, Jean-Luc Cornette signed several children's books with Jean-Marc Rochette for L’École des Loisirs and Seuil-Jeunesse editions. Coyote mauve is an endlessly reprinted bestseller. Since 2001, still as a screenwriter, he has published numerous works for Delcourt, Glénat, Humanoïdes associés, Dupuis, Le Lombard, Carabas, Drugstore, Quadrants and Futuropolis. The Passe-Murailles series designed by Stéphane Oiry for the Humanoïdes associés was selected twice in the best screenplay category at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2013, with Jerry Frissen, he took over the script for the famous Jhen series by Jacques Martin from Casterman editions. In 2011, Jean-Luc Cornette won the Liège police news contest and was published in a collection by Luce Wilquin editions. In 2014, Le Pianiste, la sirène et le chevalier was his first foray into the field of the novel. It is published by Ker editions. And in 2015, he published a short story in the collection Bruxelles Noir published in France by Asphalte and in the U. S. by Akashic Books. He also leads many comic book workshops in various countries (Canada, Vietnam, Syria, Mexico, Hungary, Czech Republic, Morocco ...). He organized an exhibition on Belgian comics which was presented in different cities of Syria in 2009. Vienna, 1907. Gustav Klimt visits the Bloch-Bauer home. This Viennese upper-middle class couple and the painter seem to share a deep friendship. It must be said that six years earlier, when the scandal of his painting La Médecine put three-quarters of the professors at the University of Vienna on his back, Adèle and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer were among the only ones to recognize his genius. Visiting his workshop, sharing his daily life, they gradually became friends. Today, Ferdinand asks him for the honor of painting a portrait of his wife. Flattered and grateful, Klimt promises to cover her in gold ... literally. Jean-Luc Cornette and Marc-Renier immerse us in the carnal and symbolist universe of the master of Viennese Art Nouveau. Fantasizing at times the hallucinatory dreams of the painter from whom he would have drawn his inspiration, this album offers us a journey to the sources of beauty, between dream and reality.
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