Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 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. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he developed a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase," many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger contemporary Egon Schiele.
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'Approaching Thunderstorm (The Large Poplar II), detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1903 £6.99
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'Art Exhibition' by Gustav Klimt in 1918 £6.99
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'Blind Man, detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1896 £6.99
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'Dancing Woman with Cape' by Gustav Klimt in 1917-18 £6.99
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'Floating Woman with Outstretched Arm (Study for Medicine)' by Gustav Klimt in 1900-01 £6.99
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'Head of a Woman in Three-Quarter Profile (Study for the Beethoven Frieze)' by Gustav Klimt in 1901-02 £6.99
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'Hope, II' by Gustav Klimt in 1907 £6.99
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'Naked Girl Standing, with Right Hand to Breast' by Gustav Klimt in 1906 £6.99
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'Portrait of a Lady with Cape and Hat, detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1897-98 £6.99
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'Portrait of a Young Woman Reclining' by Gustav Klimt in 1897 £6.99
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'Rosebushes under the Trees, detail 'by Gustav Klimt in 1905 £6.99
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'Seated Figure with Gathered up Skirt, detail 'by Gustav Klimt in 1910 £6.99
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'Seated Woman, detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1910 £6.99
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'Seated Young Girl' by Gustav Klimt in 1894 £6.99
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'Study for Judith II' by Gustav Klimt in 1908 £6.99
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'The Love' by Gustav Klimt £6.99
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'Two Naked Women Embracing (Ver Sacrum)' by Gustav Klimt in 1903 £6.99
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'Two Nudes, the Left One with Raised Arms' by Gustav Klimt in 1916-17 £6.99
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'Woman in Kimono, left shoulder bare' by Gustav Klimt in 1917-18 £6.99
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'Attersee, detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1900 £6.99
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'Death and Life, detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1910-15 £6.99
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'Naked Girl with Ruff, lying' by Gustav Klimt in 1905-06 £6.99
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'Reclining Semi-Nude (Masturbating), detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1912-13 £6.99
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'Semi-Nude leaning forward (Preparatory Work for the Painting Leda)' by Gustav Klimt in 1913-14 £6.99
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'Tranquil Pond (Egelsee near Golling, Salzburg), detail' by Gustav Klimt in 1899 £6.99
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'Two Studies of a Seated Nude with Long Hair' by Gustav Klimt in 1902 £6.99
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'Young Woman in an Armchair' by Gustav Klimt in 1896 £6.99