Gustav Klimt Biography

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One of the most popular artists of the last century - beautiful, decorative and detailed work by a totally unique artist. Klimt is the source of some of the most popular Art Nouveau prints and Art Nouveau posters sold around the world today. Modern Art Prints of some of his best known works are shown below. Further information on the artist can be found in the Gustav Klimt biography below.

Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Baumgarten, near Vienna. He studied art from the age of fourteen and undertook his first commissions while still studying. Within a few years he was undertaking regular work on behalf of museums, theatres, and other patrons. He was given large commissions by the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and these works displayed the early signs of his unique style, including gold paint, flat space and ornamentation.

In 1993 his paintings as part of a commission for the University of Vienna caused much controversy, and thereafter he would accept no more commissions from public bodies. Klimt was a co-founder of the Vienna Secession group in 1897, which aimed to increase exposure for young experimental artists. Klimt’s unique developing decorative style became a trademark of this Art Nouveau movement. Klimt’s father was a gold and silver engraver, which is perhaps where the origins of his use of these metallic colours in his own works lay.

The nudity and eroticism of Klimt’s works were seen as somewhat scandalous at the time. This is perhaps best embodied in his best known painting, that celebration of sexual attraction, ‘The Kiss’. Klimt painted relatively few works on canvas, seeing himself mainly as a decorative artist and painter of murals. He also undertook extensive illustration and poster design work, most famously working for Ver Sacrum.

Klimt decided to leave the Vienna Secession in 1905 and concentrated more on jewelry design and fashion. Klimt’s idea of art was that it was a broad spectrum, covering all the creative industries. Gustav Klimt had a stroke in January 1918 and died on 6 February of pneumonia.

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