Gustav Klimt
- Introduction
- Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 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 objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to 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 artistic 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.
- Wikidata
- Q34661
- Introduction
- Austrian painter and designer. Comment on works: genre; landscape; portrait
- Nationalities
- Austrian, German
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Designer, Decorative Artist, Painter
- Names
- Gustav Klimt, Gustave Klimt, クリムト, g. klimt, gustav klimt, gust. klimt, Klimt, klimt gustav
- Ulan
- 500030531
Exhibitions
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504: New Expression in Germany and Austria
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-
Bauer II Sep 5, 2014–Aug 15, 2016
MoMA
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
Jul 29–Nov 5, 2012
MoMA
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Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
Oct 19, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
MoMA
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Gustav Klimt has
43 exhibitionsonline.
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Gustav Klimt Poster for the First Secession Exhibition (censored version) (1. Kunstausstellung Secession) 1898
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Gustav Klimt Profile of a Girl (Study for 'Thalia and Melpomene') (Brustbild eines Mädchens mit langem Haar im Profil nach links) Profile of a Girl (Study for 'Thalia and Melpomene') (1898-99)
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Gustav Klimt Standing Woman (Stehende Schwangere mit reich ornamentiertem Gewand nach rechts) (c. 1905)
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Gustav Klimt Hope, II 1907-08
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Gustav Klimt Woman with Scarf (Dame im Dreiviertelprofil nach links, den Mund und einen Teil der Frisur durch Umhang verdeckt) (c. 1910)
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Gustav Klimt The Park 1910 or earlier
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Gustav Klimt Three Courtesans (Drei stehende Frauenakte) c.1907–10
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Gustav Klimt Reclining Woman (Liegender Halbakt nach rechts) (1912-13)
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Gustav Klimt Seated Woman (Sitzend nach rechts, Halbbild) (c. 1915)
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Gustav Klimt Reclining Woman (Liegender Halbakt) (c. 1917)
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Gustav Klimt Standing Woman in Kimono (Dame im Kimono) (1917-18)
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