Judith ii

The painted kiss
The woman in gold owner
Klimt university of vienna ceiling paintings

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Gustav klimt

1. GUSTAV KLIMT Nineteenth century (XIX) Austrian painter Gustav Klimt is known for the highly decorative style of his works, his most famous being “The Kiss”. Born in 1862, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt became known for the highly decorative style , which were seen as a rebellion against the traditional academic art of his time.

2. BIOGRAPHY Gustav Klimt was born on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 1862. His father, Ernst, was a struggling gold engraver who had immigrated to Vienna from Bohemia, and his mother, Anna, was musically talented, although she had never realized her dream of becoming a professional musician. Perhaps genetically predisposed to the arts, then, Klimt displayed a notable talent from an early age, and at 14 years old left his normal school to attend the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts on a full scholarship, no small matter considering both his youth and the relative poverty in which he had been raised.

3. THE KISS The Kiss (in German Der Kuss) is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the A

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Gustav Klimt

Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)

"Klimt" redirects here. For other uses, see Klimt (disambiguation).

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. Amongst 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.^[3]

Early in his career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop 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 pai

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