Emilie Louise Flöge

It frustrates me that Emilie Louise Flöge is so often reduced to a footnote in Gustav Klimt's life. She was a working entrepreneur who ran her own Vienna fashion house at a time when independent businesswomen were rare, running the haute couture salon Schwestern Flöge with her sister. To me she is a genuine protagonist of Vienna's fin-de-siècle culture, not merely a muse. Designer, model, art collector and businesswoman all at once, she embodies a modern creative independence that history has been slow to credit. I'd argue she deserves to be remembered firmly on her own terms.

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Name (English)

Emilie Louise Flöge

Name (Japanese)

エミーリエ・フレーゲ

Reading

えみーりえ・ふれーげ

Born

August 30, 1874 – May 26, 1952

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Occupation

fashion designer / model / art collector / entrepreneur

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie%20Louise%20Fl%C3%B6ge
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79147

Tags

• fashion designer
• model
• art collector

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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