Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals,
Photographic portrait from 1914
Gustav Klimt in 1887
A section of the Beethoven Frieze, at Secession Building in Vienna (1902)
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which sold for a record US$135M in 2006, Neue Galerie New York (1907)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-B
Gustav Klimt
…by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. He is best known for The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. Early in his career, he was a successful…
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Adele Bloch-Bauer, c. 1910
Detail of Judith I (1901), for which Adele modelled
The mosaic of Empress Theodora at the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna