Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – 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 (see Mulher sentada, below). These female subjects, whether formal portraits or indolent nudes, invariably display a highly sensitized fin de siècle elegance.
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, Austria, the second of seven children-- three boys and four girls.
In 1911 his painting Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibition in Rome. In 1915 his mother Anna died.Gustav Klimt died three years later in Vienna on February 6, 1918 of a stroke and was interred at the Hietzing Cemetery, Vienna. Numerous oil paintings were left unfinished.
Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In November 2003, Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sold for $29,128,000,[10] but that was soon eclipsed by prices paid for other Klimts. In 2006 the artist's Apple Tree I (ca. 1912) sold for $33 million and Birch Forest (1903) sold for $40.3 million.[11] Both works had been recently restituted to the heirs of Adele Bloch-Bauer.
Gustav Klimt Later life & posthumous success
Purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York by Ronald Lauder for a reported US $135 million, the 1907 portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I deposed Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million) as the highest reported price ever paid for a piece of art sold at a public auction, on or around June 19, 2006. This is one of the five paintings referred to below in the Legacy section and an NPR report. On August 7, 2006, Christie's auction house announced it was handling the sale of the remaining works by Klimt that were recovered by the Bloch-Bauer heirs after a long legal battle. They auctioned Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II in November 2006 for $88 million, the third-highest priced piece of art at auction at the time.[13] Collectively the five restituted paintings, including aforementioned landscapes, netted over $327 million.
Liverpool artwork of the week 21. 'Two Girls With An Oleander' by Gustav Klimt c.1890-2 at Tate Liverpool May 30 to August 31 2008
One of Klimt's earlier works well before his 'golden' period this is more pre-raphaelite and would look good in the Lady Lever gallery.
The exhibition focuses on the life and art of one of the world’s most influential and revered artists. It will explore Klimt’s role as the founder and leader of the Viennese Secession, a progressive group of artists and artisans. The work and philosophy of the Secession embraced art, architecture, fashion, dazzling decorative objects and furniture in their search for identity.
Major paintings and drawings from all stages of Klimt’s career will be shown alongside the work of Josef Hoffmann, the architect and designer and a close friend of the artist.
Gustav Klimt Selected works
* Fable (1883))
* The Theatre in Taormina (1886-1888))
* Auditorium in the Old Burgtheater, Vienna (1888))
* Portrait of Joseph Pembauer, the Pianist and Piano Teacher (1890))
* Ancient Greece II (Girl from Tanagra) (1890 - 1891))
* Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann?) (1894))
* Music I (1895))
* Love (1895))
* Sculpture (1896))
* Tragedy (1897))
* Music II (1898))
* Pallas Athene (1898))
* Gustav Klimt Painting Flowing water (1898))
* Gustav Klimt Painting Portrait of Sonja Knips (1898))
* Gustav Klimt Painting Fish Blood (1898)
* Schubert at the Piano (1899)
* After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St Agatha) (1899)
* Nymphs (Silver Fish) (1899)
* Mermaids (1899)
* Philosophy (1899–1907) [16]
* Nuda Veritas (1899)
* Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899)
* Medicine (Hygieia) (1900–1907)
* Music (Lithograph) (1901)
* Judith I (1901)
* Buchenwald (Birkenwald) (1901)
* Gold Fish (To my critics) (1901–1902)
* Portrait of Gertha Felsovanyi (1902)
* Portrait of Emilie Floge (1902)
* Beech Forest (1902)
* Beech Forest I (1902)
* Beethoven Frieze (1902) [17] [18]
* Beech woods (1903)
* Hope (1903)
* Pear Tree (1903)
* Life is a struggle(1903)
* Jurisprudence (1903–1907) [19]
* Water Serpents I (1904–1907)
* Water Serpents II (1904–1907)
*Gustav Klimt Paintings The Three Ages of Woman (1905))
* Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905)
* Farm Garden (Flower Garden) (1905–1906)
* Farm Garden with Sunflowers (1905-1906)
* The Stoclet Frieze (1905-1909)
* Portrait of Fritsa Reidler (1906)
* Sunflower (1906-1907)
* Hope II (1907-1908)
* Danaë (1907)
* Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)
* Poppy Field (1907)
* Schloss Kammer on the Attersee I (1908)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings The Kiss (1907 - 1908)
* Lady with Hat and Feather Boa (1909)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings The Tree of Life (1909)
* Judith II (Salomé) (1909)
* Black Feather Hat (Lady with Feather Hat) (1910)
* Schloss Kammer on the Attersee III (1910)
* The Park (1910)
* Death and Life (1911)
* Farm Garden with Crucifix (1911-1912)
* Apple Tree (1912)
* Forester's House, Weissenbach on Lake Attersee (1912)
* Portrait of Mada Primavesi (1912)
* Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings The Virgins (Die Jungfrau) (1913)
* The Church in Cassone (1913)
* Semi-nude seated, reclining (1913)
* Semi-nude seated, with closed eyes (1913)
* Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi (1913-1914)
* Lovers, drawn from the right (1914)
* Portrait of Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt (1914)
* Semi-nude lying, drawn from the right (1914-1915)
* Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer (1916)
* Houses in Unterach on the Attersee (1916)
* Death and Life (1916)
* Garden Path with Chickens (1916)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings The Girl-Friends (1916-1917)
* Woman seated with thighs apart, drawing (1916-1917)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings The Dancer (1916 - 1918)
* Leda (destroyed) (1917)
* Portrait of a Lady, en face (1917-1918)
* The Bride (unfinished) (1917-1918)
* Adam and Eve (unfinished) (1917-1918)
* Gustav Klimt Paintings Portrait of Johanna Staude (unfinished) (1917-1918)Liverpool artwork of the week 21. 'Two Girls With An Oleander' by Gustav Klimt c.1890-2 at Tate Liverpool May 30 to August 31 2008
other artist: Charles Chaplin Paintings Philip Craig Paintings Jean-Paul Laurens Paintings David Hardy Paintings