A book about the great portrait painter of the time: Thomas Kluge. His paintings go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and he has painted the tips of business as well as the royal house. Yet he has never been fully accepted by the Danish art elite. The book here is a complete catalog of Thomas Kluge's entire oeuvre. It begins with a timeline of Kluge's development as an artist and then three chapters on resp. the perfection of art and the artist, about the portrait painting for which Kluge is especially known, and Thomas Kluge's value struggle. This is followed by a conversation between art historian Thyge Christian Fønss-Lundberg and Thomas Kluge about the criticism he has met over the years. The main part of the book is the sumptuous catalog of the artist's paintings from 1990 to today.

En bog om tidens store portrætmaler: Thomas Kluge. Hans malerier går for flere hundrede tusinder kroner, og han har malet erhvervslivets spidser såvel som kongehuset. Alligevel er han aldrig helt blevet accepteret af den danske kunstelite. Bogen her er et samlet katalog over hele Thomas Kluges oeuvre. Den indleder med en tidslinje over Kluges udvikling som kunstner og dernæst tre kapitler om hhv. kunstens og kunstnerens perfektion, om portrætmaleriet, som Kluge især er kendt for, og Thomas Kluges værdikamp. Hertil følger en samtale mellem kunsthistoriker Thyge Christian Fønss-Lundberg og Thomas Kluge om den kritik, han har mødt gennem årene. Bogens hoveddel er det overdådige katalog med kunstnerens malerier fra 1990 til i dag.