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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

Attersee

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

Judith and the Head of Holofernes

Beech Grove 1

Goldfish

Portrait of Emilie Flöge

Portrait of Marie Henneberg

Hope 1

Rosebushes under the Trees

The Three Ages of Woman

Portrait of Fritza Riedler

Farm Garden with Sunflowers

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Water Snakes 1

Danaë

Hope 2

The Kiss

Portrait of Mäda Primavesi

Ria Munk on her Deathbed

Death and Life

Litzlberg on the Attersee

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?

“I wanted to see everything in the world”

Painting from memory

Pedro Figari Gustav Klimt

Will paint for food

The world isn't ready

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