Chronicles of Sex

Edward VIII. & Wallis Simpson: Their fascinating story of love, passion, scandal and exile

Frida Kahlo, whose self portrait was auctioned for 55 million $ in November 2025, in a true story about a revolution, shaped by art and desire.

Ludwig II. of Bavaria and the brillant actor Josef Kainz: A forbidden love, a story of passion, obsession and madness that ended in tragedy.

Meet Gustav Klimt, whose portrait of Elisabeth Lederer just fetched 236,5 million $ at Sotheby's in New York. The second most expensive painting ever sold. Klimt, living in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, was an artist, torn between muse and mistress, beauty and rebellion, the sacred and the profane. Klimt's iconic portraits of women, his fervent relationships with Emilie Flöge and Adele Bloch-Bauer and his scandalous vision have forever changed the way we see desire, art and the power of the feminine.