We're in This Together Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fashion Designer

Emilie Floge was born in 1874 in Vienna, Austria. She got her start as a seamstress and soon began making high fashion dresses. In 1892, Gustav Klimt was introduced to her family and she became his life partner and muse for his artistic works. By 1891, he was portraying her in many of his paintings and his famous work, "The Kiss", is believed to show them as lovers.

In 1904, Emilie and her sisters opened a fashion house in Vienna - an unusual venture for three unmarried thirty-something year old women. She designed clothing in the reform style, which proposed clothing in a more comfortable and practical style for women. Emilie earned a small fee from her clientele but then inherited half of Klimt's estate when he died. Emilie Floge died in 1952 at the age of 77 and was considered a trailblazer woman of her time in the world of fashion history.

Answer: Pablo Picasso

Dora Maar was born in 1907 and grew up between Argentina and France. She studied art in Paris and went on to study photography. By 1931, she had opened a photographic studio and specialized in nudes, portraits, and advertising. She used collage and dramatic lighting and tried to show that the 'modern woman' was not an ideal body. She also took her camera to the streets to show the plight of people during recessions around the world.

In 1936, she met Pablo Picasso and they soon entered into a relationship. He was coming out of an emotional depression and she encouraged him to get back to his art. Picasso painted Dora in numerous paintings, including "Weeping Woman" and introduced her to surrealists and their exhibitions. Their liason lasted almost a decade before Picasso left her.

As the years passed, Dora Maar began to paint artwork as well as continue her experimental photography sessions. As she aged, she worked on abstract landscapes and photograms, which were camera-less pictures. She died in 1997 at 89 years old with much of her work to be discovered after her burial.

Answer: Patti Smith

Patti Smith was born in 1946 in Chicago and briefly worked in a factory before moving to New York in 1967. The day she arrived she met Robert Mapplethorpe, a rising young artist/photographer. She soon became his lover, his muse, his roommate and, as she writes later, his "soulmate". Patti's poetry readings morphed in a form of punk rock music. She released her first album, "Horses", in 1975 and the cover photo was shot by Mapplethorpe.

As the years went by, Mapplethorpe moved to California to explore his sexuality and continue to shock the art world with his sexually explicit images that were mostly done in black and white. Smith released several more songs before getting married and moving to Michigan. After her husband's death, she released more albums and began writing books.

One of her books, "Just Kids", focuses on her relationship with Mapplethorpe and their intense ties that only broke when he died of AIDS in 1989.

Answer: False

Lizzie Siddal was discovered working in a hat shop in London in 1849. She was found by a secret society of seven young men who were beginning to paint works in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. She modeled for many of them, including the famous "Ophelia" painted by John Everett Millais. Ironically her willowy build and was considered very unattractive by most of society and red hair was seen as "social suicide". Soon thereafter, Rossetti chose her as his muse and began painting her in his own works.

For ten years the couple was engaged and the date kept getting pushed out until 1860. During this period, Siddal not only modeled for her Rossetti but also began painting herself. Unfortunately, she also began a long addiction to laudanum. After she gave birth to a stillborn baby in 1861 she spun into a deep depression and eventually committed suicide at age 32.

Rossetti spiraled into insanity but continued to write poetry about Lizzie and painted a likeness of her entitled "Beata Beatrix" before 1870. He died in 1882 in a village by the sea.

Answer: Andy Warhol

Edie Sedgwick was born in California in 1943 and grew up in a dysfunctional household. She suffered from various eating disorders, including anorexia. On her twenty-first birthday, she received some trust money and moved to New York City to try modeling. Almost a year later, she met Andy Warhol and started hanging out at his art studio called "The Factory". Thus began a period of time where she starred in several of his avant-garde films and made a name for herself.

Warhol was not just a filmmaker but a rising artist who was making use of silk screen printmaking techniques for his pop art collection, featuring such icons as the cans of Campbell's soup. He used Edie as a muse in his creative work for over a year before they parted ways.

Sedgwick drifted between acting roles, while also battling depression. She married a fellow patient at a mental hospital and ended up dying at age 28 from an overdose.

Answer: Georgia O'Keeffe

Alfred Stieglitz was born in 1864 in New Jersey and spent the first decade of the 1900s promoting photography as an art form. He also spread the word through periodicals and gallery exhibitions. His reputation grew and by 1910 he had whole galleries devoted to his work.

In 1917 he met Georgia O'Keeffe, divorced his wife, and eventually married Georgia. He helped turn her from watercolors to oil on canvas and she soon became known for her images of natural things such as flowers and rocks. She also painted the city skyscrapers and tableaus from the New Mexico countryside. During the years of her painting, she was also the subject of Stieglitz' photography sessions. In fact, over 300 photos of her were taken by Stieglitz.

Georgia O'Keeffe continued to paint various subjects for forty years after her husband's death and wrote an autobiography before she died at the age of 98 in her beloved Ghost Ranch.

Answer: Helga

Andrew Wyeth was born in 1917 in Pennsylvania. With his father being an illustrator, Andrew soon took up art himself. He quickly became a hit, and his paintings of the local areas in Pennsylvania and Maine were big sellers. His best-known painting, "Christina's World" shows a polio victim trying to climb a hill.

Prussian-born Helga Testorf was 32 when she met Wyeth while she was a nurse for a neighbor down the road. Their acquaintance quickly turned into a friendship. She became his muse and he created close to 240 individual works of her from 1971 to 1985 without telling anyone, including his wife. He believed he could not finish the project with people knowing. He painted her clothed and nude, asleep and awake.

Wyeth went on to paint many more paintings. His collections are in museums across the country and he has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Congressional Gold Medal. Helga was present at his 90th birthday party and he died in 2009 at age 91.

Answer: Rembrandt

Saskia van Uylenburgh was born in 1612 in the Netherlands to a well known patrician family. Her cousin, Hendrik van Uylenburgh, was a painter and art dealer in Amsterdam whom she frequently visited. Rembrandt, meanwhile, had come to Amsterdam in 1624 to study art and by 1632 he had established himself as a leading artist, who specialized in history paintings and portraits.

Rembrandt invested in van Uylenburgh's business and soon was acquainted with Saskia. They married in 1634 and were together for 8 years until her death of tuberculosis. Rembrandt did many drawings, etchings, and paintings of his wife and muse. The first was done just days after their engagement and one of the last was when he painted her face on the golden girl in his famous "Night Watch" to honor her memory. Rembrandt himself died penniless in 1669.

Answer: True

Diego Rivera was a political activist and a gifted painter and muralist when 15 year old Frida Kahlo set eyes on the 36 year old artist. Soon thereafter, Frida was in a terrible accident that would cause her pain the rest of her life. Diego and Frida were re-introduced in 1928 and married a year later. He continued to encourage her self-portraits and grow her talent. The 1930s saw them acting as each other's muses as they painted each other's visage and symbolism in their works.

They had been practicing an open marriage arrangement until Frida found out Diego had been romancing her own sister. Then her mixed emotions and feelings showed in the works as well. They divorced then remarried. They continued to be each other's "other half" until Frida died in 1954.

Answer: Salvador Dali

Gala was born in 1894 to a family in the Russian Empire. At age 17 she was sent to Switzerland for treatment of tuberculosis and met Paul Eluard, who she married. This French poet introduced her to the Surrealist movement. She was often a model for the painters and even spent three years in a love triangle with her husband and Max Ernst. In 1929, she met a Spanish painter who was new to the scene named Salvador Dali. She quickly fell in love with the man who was ten years younger.

The couple moved in together and then got married in 1934. Dali signed his paintings with his and her name on it as she was his inspiration. He was working with techniques such as Cubism, sexual imagery, and symbolism. He also grew out his mustache to be very flamboyant which become his trademark. Dali and Gala's complex relationship would last fifty years until his death in 1989 of cardiac failure.