Publication by DPDF 2007 “Visual Culture” Fellow Olivia Gruber Florek

This article examines Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s 1864 portrait of Empress Elisabeth (Kaiserin Elisabeth mit verschlungenem Haar). Using visual analysis and a psychoanalytic framework, the article argues that the eroticism portrayed in this portrait is unique within Winterhalter’s oeuvre and foreshadows the sexuality theorized by Sigmund Freud and represented in images of femmes fatales at the fin de siècle.

Publication Details

Title
I Am a Slave To My Hair: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Fetishism, and Nineteenth-Century Austrian Sexuality
Authors
Florek, Olivia Gruber
Publisher
Austrian Studies Association
Publish Date
June 2009
On the Web
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/43278937/am-slave-my-hair-empress-elisabeth-austria-fetishism-nineteenth-century-austrian-sexuality1
Citation
Florek, Olivia Gruber, I Am a Slave To My Hair: Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Fetishism, and Nineteenth-Century Austrian Sexuality (Austrian Studies Association, June 2009).
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