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Gustav Klimt. 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
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Gustav Klimt 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. 1862-1918
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.
Schubert at the Piano1899 ( Destroyed by fire at Schloss Immerdorf in 1945 )
Goldfish 1901-1902
Hope I 1903
Portrait of Margarethe Stoneborough-Wittgenstein 1905
Hygeia (Detail of Medicine) 1900-1907
The Kiss 1907-1908
Judith II (Salome) 1909
Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912
Baby 1917 Baby1917-1918
Portrait of Mäda Primavesi1921
Klimt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1918. He continued painting until the very end and many of his final works remained unfinished. CM