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
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)
Judith and the Head of Holofernes is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, painted in 1901. It depicts the biblical figure Judith holding the head of Holofernes after beheading him. The beheading and its a
Gustav Klimt
…would come to define the start of his so-called "Golden Phase". Pallas Athena (1898) is often considered to be the earliest piece from this period, with Judith I (1901) being another notable early example. The most iconic works of this period include Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), The Kiss (1907–08…
The Sin, 1893, by Franz Stuck
Judith II, 1909, by Klimt