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Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze (mk20)
1902
Left side wall(detail):Yearning for Hap-piness
Die Sehnsucht nach Gluck
Casein paint on plaster
2.2 metres high,13.78 metres long Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze (mk20)
1902
Central end wall(detail):Hostile Forces Die Feindlichen Gewalten
Casein paint on plaster,2.2 metres high,6.36 metres long Autrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Beethoven Frieze (mk20)
1902
Right side wall(detail):The Yearning for Happiness Finds Fulfilment in Poetry Die Sehnsucht nach Gluck findes Stil-Lungin der Poesie Casein paint on plaster,2.2 metres high,13.81 metres long Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
The Kiss (detail) (mk20)
1907/08
Der Kuss
Oil on canvas,180 x 180 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Life is a Struggle (The Golden Knight) (mk20)
1903
Das Leben ein Kampf(Der goldene Ritter)
Oil on canvas,100 x 100 cm
Private collection,by permission of the St.Etienne Gallery,New York
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Gustav Klimt
Death and Life (mk20)
completed in 1916
Tod und Leben
Oil on canvas,178 x 198 cm
Dr.Rudolf Leopold Collection,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Farmhouse in Upper Austria (mk20)
1911/12
Oberostereichisches Bauernhaus
Oil on canvas,110 x 110 Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Apple Tree I (mk20)
around 1912
Apfelbaum I
Oil on canvas,110 x 110 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
The Virgin (detail) (mk20)
1913
Die Jungfrau
Oil on canvas,190 x 200 cm
Narodni Galery,Prague
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Gustav Klimt
Lady with cape and Hat (mk20)
Three-Quarter View from the Right 1897/98
Black and red chalk,45 x 32 cm
Albertina,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Fritza Riedler (mk20
1906
Bildnis Fritza Riedler
Oil on canvas,153 x 133 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Mada Primavesi (mk20
around 1912
Bildnis Mada Primavesi
Oil on canvas,150 x 110.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,gift of Andre and Clara Mertens,in memory of her mother,Jenny Pulitzer Steiner,1964
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Gustav Klimt
Judith I (detail) (mk20)
1901
Oil on canvas,84 x 42 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Judith I (mk20)
1901
Oil on canvas,84 x 42 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Baby (detail) (mk20)
1917/18
Oil on canvas,110 x 110 cm
National Gallery of Art,Washington D.C
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Gustav Klimt
Danae (mk20)
1907/08
Oil on canvas,77 x 83 cm
Private collection,Graz
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Gustav Klimt
Schlo Kammer at Lake Atter I (mk20)
around 1908
Schloss Kammer am Attersee I
Oil on canvas,110 x 110 cm
Narodni Gallery,Prague
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Gustav Klimt
The Park (mk20)
1910
Der park Oil on canvas,110 x 110 cm
Gertrude A Mellon Fund,Collection,The Museum of Modern Art New York
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Gustav Klimt
Water Serpents I (mk20)
1904-1907
Wasserschlangen I Watercolours and gold paint on parchment,50 x 20 cm
Austrian Gallery,Vienna
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Gustav Klimt
Gold Fish (detail) (mk20)
1901/02
Goldfische
Oil on canvas,150 x 46 cm
Dubi-Muller Foundation,Kunstmuseum,Solothurn
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| Gustav Klimt
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Austrian Art Nouveau Painter, 1862-1918
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 ?C February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism--nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil.
Klimt's work is distinguished by the elegant gold or coloured decoration, often of a phallic shape that conceals the more erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are based. This can be seen in Judith I (1901), and in The Kiss (1907?C1908), and especially in Danaë (1907). One of the most common themes Klimt utilized was that of the dominant woman, the femme fatale. Art historians note an eclectic range of influences contributing to Klimt's distinct style, including Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations. Klimt was also inspired by the engravings of Albrecht D??rer, late medieval European painting, and Japanese Rimpa school. His mature works are characterized by a rejection of earlier naturalistic styles, and make use of symbols or symbolic elements to convey psychological ideas and emphasize the "freedom" of art from traditional culture.
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