Artist
Gustav Klimt
Austrian, 1862–1918
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Realism painter. 29 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art, most of them oil paintings. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten.
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, 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. 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.
Works by Gustav Klimt
Collections represented
Moments involving Gustav Klimt
- Klimt's Portrait of a Lady Is Stolen · 1997 The theft and recovery made Portrait of a Lady one of the most discussed late Klimt works and a landmark modern art-crime case.
- France authorizes return of Nazi-looted works · 2022 The case created a visible precedent for legislating restitution from French national collections.
- Van Gogh and Expressionism Opens · 2007 The exhibition sharpened public understanding of Van Gogh as a catalyst for Expressionist modernism.
- Vienna 1900: Style and Identity opens · 2011 The exhibition reinforced the cross-disciplinary reading of Viennese modernism in American museum practice.
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