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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gustav_KlimtGustav Klimt - Wikipedia

    Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.Klimt's primary subject was the female body, [1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. [2] Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and ...

  2. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works ...

  3. Gustav Klimt died three years later in Vienna on February 6, 1918, having suffered a stroke and pneumonia. He was buried at the Hietzing Cemetery in Vienna. Numerous paintings were left unfinished. Gustav Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In 2006, the 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch ...

  4. Aug 6, 2024 · Gustav Klimt (born July 14, 1862, Vienna, Austria—died February 6, 1918, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession. After studying at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts, Klimt in 1883 opened an independent studio specializing in the execution of mural paintings.

  5. Mar 26, 2018 · Klimt, the leader of the Vienna Secession movement, was a master of symbolism. He embedded allusions to sexuality and the human psyche in the rich, lavishly decorated figures and patterns that populated his canvases, murals, and mosaics. Often, their messages—of pleasure, sexual liberation, and human suffering—were only thinly veiled.

  6. www.moma.org › artists › 3147Gustav Klimt | MoMA

    Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

  7. Gustav Klimt, the second of seven children, was born on July 14, 1862 outside Vienna. At the age of 14, Gustav received a scholarship for the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule. His family was not wealthy, and Klimt applied himself to his studies. A talented student, he worked with his professors and classmates on important commissions while still studying.

  8. Jul 14, 1862 - Feb 6, 1918. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other Objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

  9. www.biography.com › artists › gustav-klimtGustav Klimt - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · Perhaps Klimt’s most famous work from this period, however, is the 1907 "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I." Commissioned in 1903 by Bloch-Bauer’s wealthy industrialist husband, the work ...

  10. 1862. On July 14, Gustav Klimt was born in Vienna to Ernst Klimt (1834–92) and his wife, Anna (1836–1915), née Finster, as the second of seven children. The house in which he was born, at 247 Linzer Straße, is no longer there. It was located in the then suburb of Baumgarten, which today forms part of the 14th district of Vienna.

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