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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt

Austrian painter


Dead at 55 years
Birthday
Monday
He is born 161 years, 8 months and 15 days ago
Death date
Wednesday

He is dead since 106 years, 1 month and 23 days

Cause of death: acute pneumonia

Birthplace
Vienne, Austria
Nationality: austrian Autriche
Categorie
Painters » Symbolists
Birth sign: Cancer

Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. 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 painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.

Since the 1990s, he has been one of the artists whose paintings fetch top prices at auctions.

Source : Wikipedia