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Gustav Klimt

By Arianna2607
  • Birth

    Birth

    Baumgarden, Austria
  • School of Applied Arts, Vienna

    School of Applied Arts, Vienna

    Klimt and his brother Ernst went to School of Applied Arts in Vienna
    Not classical studies but contemporary onces
  • Emperor Franz Joseph and empress Elizabeth

    Emperor Franz Joseph and empress Elizabeth

    Silver in photo, Klimt was just 17 years old when he was called to help to design the pageant for Emperor Franz Joseph’s silver wedding celebrations
  • Burgtheater, Vienna

    Burgtheater, Vienna

    Gustav and Ernst were given the prestigious job of decorating the ceiling and staircase of the newly built Burgtheater in Vienna.
  • Joseph Pembauer

    Joseph Pembauer

    Portrait of Joseph Pembauer, the Pianist and Piano Teacher
    69 x 55 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.
  • Ernst Klimt Death

    Ernst Klimt Death

    Ernst Klimt is buried in Friedhof Baumgarten
  • Great Hall of University of Vienna

    Great Hall of University of Vienna

    The ministry of Education asked Gustav Klimt to produce a series of designs for the ceiling of the Great Hall at Vienna University, the themes are: Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, three of the University’s faculties.
  • Schubert at the piano

    Schubert at the piano

    150 x 200 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Destroyed by a fire set by retreating German forces in 1945 at Schloss Immendorf, Austria.
  • Judith I

    Judith I

    84 x 42 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
    Half-naked, sneer (ghigno), you can see the severed head of Oloferne, Jewel on her neck, stylized landscape.
  • Beethoven Frieze

    Beethoven Frieze

    215 x 34 cm.
    Oil on Canvas, Gold.
    Secession building, Vienna.
    Man seeks to thwart the forces of evil through the arts, choir, hug, the tree of life.
  • Adele Bloch-Bauer I

    Adele Bloch-Bauer I

    138 x 138 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Neue Galerie, New York.
    The portrait was commissionate by her husband. After years her niece succeeds in getting the pictures. The background in gold, geometric shapes.
  • The kiss

    The kiss

    189 x 189 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
    Golden background, the bodies melt together, space and time suspension, she has the hoops, he the rectangles.
  • Judith II

    Judith II

    178 x 46 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Galleria internazionale d’arte moderna, Venezia.
    Pointed profile, claws hold the head, the background mingles with her hair and dress.
  • Death and Life

    Death and Life

    Klimt won the First price in an exhibition in Rome.
    178 x 198 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Leopold Museum, Vienna.
    Naked humans from all the ages, that life has bright color while death has darker ones.
  • Malcesine on lake Garda

    Malcesine on lake Garda

    110 x 100 cm.
    Oil on Canvas.
    Destroyed by a fire set by retreating German forces in 1945 at Schloss Immendorf, Austria.
  • Gustav Klimt Death

    Gustav Klimt Death

    Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna, Austria