Description
Gustav Klimt: *1862, Baumgarten near Vienna † 1918, Vienna
o. T. Nude
Execution: Prints
Date: around 1900
Dimensions: 46 x 38 cm framed
Signature: printed at the bottom
Provenance: Original work from private collection
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter and decorator, one of the most important representatives of Viennese Art Nouveau. Painter and graphic artist, master of architectural interiors. One of the co-founders of the Vienna Secession and participant in the Wiener Werkstätten. Stylisation, symbolism and eroticism characterise his monumental and decorative works.
The artistic legacy of Gustav Klimt combines several very different styles: the distanced yet sensual formal language of historicism, the symbolism of the colours and lines of the early Secession, the monumental austerity and rich ornamentation of the “Golden Period” and the relaxed use of colour and brushwork of the mature artist. Klimt’s diversity reflects his openness to new impressions and the radical renewal of the Viennese cultural and artistic society of which he was a key figure. Gustav Klimt’s creative life took place in the specific intellectual atmosphere of the Austrian capital, and in the most interesting and topical period of European cultural history, the Fin de Siècle, the birth of Viennese Art Nouveau.
