| Gallery for Klimt |
| Gustav Klimt |
| Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 and
from 1876 to 1882, he studied at the Vienna Arts and Crafts School and, together with
nineteen other artists, joined the Jugendstil (Art Noveau) movement in 1897. He became a co-founder of the Vienna Secession and was its president until his resignation in 1906. Like many of his contemporaries, he favoured Symbolist representations. His portraits are both delicate and magnificent, his less numerous landscape mosaic-like, with their dotted brushwork. Klimt's work, which is now highly esteemed, greatly influenced the development of the Vienna Jugendstil and also crafts movement, as represented by the Wiener Werkstatte founded in 1903. |