Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian symbolist painter, was born in Vienna in 1862. Klimt was the founding president of the Vienna Secession movement, that played an important role in shaping the era around 1900. Throughout his life he had to support his lower middle-class family financially.
Klimt’s art was marked by frank eroticism and primarily focused on painting the female body, which made him an important figure of the Art Nouveau movement worldwide. His works included paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art.
At age 14 he received a scholarship for the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule where he studied decorative arts. He came from a family of artists as his father Ernst Klimt was a gold engraver from Bohemia and his mother Anna Finster was an ambitious but failed musical artist.
Klimt’s legacy remained present throughout Austria beyond death in 1918.The Monument against War and Fascism erected in his honor can still be found at Hohen Market in Vienna today.
All Gustav Klimt Artwork on Artchive
| Artwork Name | Year | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Pembauer | 1890 | Oil On Canvas |
| Mermaids (whitefish) | c. 1899 | Oil On Canvas |
| Danae | 1907 - 1908 | Oil on Canvas |
| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | 1907 | Oil on Canvas |
| Death and Life | 1908 - 1916 | Oil on Canvas |
| Hope I | 1903 | Oil on Canvas |
| Hope II | 1907 - 1908 | Oil on Canvas |
| Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi | 1913 | Oil on Canvas |
| Portrait of Fritza Riedler | 1906 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Kiss | 1907 - 1908 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Three Ages of Woman | 1905 | Oil on Canvas |
| The Kiss | 1907 - 1908 | Oil on Canvas |
| Head of a Recumbent Man, Supporting Himself | 1886-88 | Black chalk, highlighted in white |
| Garden Path with Chickens | 1916 | Oil on Canvas |
| Beethoven Frieze | 1902 | Casein paint on plaster |
| Hygeia | 1900 - 1907 | Oil on Canvas |
| Judith II | 1909 | Oil on Canvas |
| Medicine (composition draft) | 1897-98 | Oil on Canvas |
| Music I | 1895 | Oil on Canvas |
| Nude Veritas | 1899 | Oil on Canvas |
| Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann) | c. 1894 | Oil on wood |
| Portrait of Mada Primavesi | c.1912 | Oil on Canvas |
| Poster for the 1st Secession exhibition | 1898 | Lithograph |
| Water Serpents II | 1904-07 | Oil on Canvas |
| Judith I | 1901 | Oil on Canvas |
| Pallas Athene | 1898 | Oil on Canvas |
| Portrait of Emilie Floge | 1902 | Oil on Canvas |
| Serpents I | 1904-07 | Watercolors and gold paint on parchment |
