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Gustav Klimt
1862-1918
Born in Vienna, in 1862, into a lower middle-class family
the late 19th Century
one of the founders and leaders of the Vienna Secession art movement
As an exceptional student, he was given the chance to attend classes at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts commissioned to paint several large decorative works by the age of twenty.
Sappho 1888-90
Sonja Knips
1898
Portrait of a Girl 1902
Art Noveau.
Focusing on experimentation and the study of contemporary styles of art, as well as historical styles that were overlooked within the establishment, such as Japanese, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian and Mycenaean art. Although educated as classicist, his use of bright, vivid colors and the widespread use of symbolic objects in his paintings would set the trends for the entire period, and would have a profound influence on Viennese Art Noveau and the Secession movement ( founded in 1897), that was against the classicist establishment, which it found to be oppressive. In 1903, he visited Italy twice and was profoundly influenced by the golden mosaics of Ravenna. This marked the beginning of his "golden style." By 1910, Klimt had moved past his Golden Style, and in 1912, he changed the background from gold to blue.
Music 1895
Pallas Athena 1898
Schubert at the Piano 1899 ( Destroyed by fire at Schloss Immerdorf in 1945 )
Judith and Holopherne 1901
Goldfish1901-1902
Portrait of Emilie Flöge 1902
Hope I 1903
Farmhouse with Birch Trees 1903
Country Garden with Sunflowers 1905-1906
Portrait of Margarethe Stoneborough-Wittgenstein
1905
The Three Ages of Woman 1905
Hope II 1907-1908
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907
Hygeia (Detail of Medicine) 1900-1907
The Kiss 1907-1908
Death and Life 1908-1916
Judith II (Salome) 1909
Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912
Fredericke Maria Beer 1916
Lady with Fan 1917-1918
Baby 1917
Baby 1917-1918
Portrait of Mäda Primavesi 1921
Klimt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1918. He continued painting until the very end and many of his final works remained unfinished.
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