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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian artist born on July 14, 1862. Klimt contributed to the Vienna Secessionist, and Art Nouveau movements and died on February 6, 1918. Get notified when Gustav Klimt's biography is complete:

Portrait of Helen Klimt

Young Girl Seated

Music 1

Portrait of Sonja Knips

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures...

On Fear and Self Portraits

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

The Daily Routine

Attersee

Judith and the Head of Holofernes

Goldfish

Portrait of Marie Henneberg

Portrait of Emilie Flöge

Beech Grove 1

Hope 1

Rosebushes under the Trees

The Three Ages of Woman

Portrait of Fritza Riedler

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Water Snakes 1

Farm Garden with Sunflowers

The Kiss

Hope 2

Danaë

Ria Munk on her Deathbed

Portrait of Mäda Primavesi

Litzlberg on the Attersee

Death and Life

Portrait of Amalie Zuckerlandl

Adam and Eve

Infant

Gustav Klimt

Love of country and love of women

Koloman Moser

From wallpaper to postage stamps — Kolo does it all

Gustav Klimt

Love of country and love of women

Wenzel Hablik

The architect of invisible cities

William Morris

Can you run a socialist company in a capitalist economy?

Painting from memory

“I wanted to see everything in the world”

Ivana Kobilca Gustav Klimt

Will paint for food

The world isn't ready

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