Gustav-Klimt.com http://www.gustav-klimt.com Paintings and articles Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Gustav Klimt http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/later-years/ http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/later-years/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:30:44 +0000 admin http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/later-years/ Gustav KlimtGustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter born in 1862 near Vienna, Austria.

He was one of the most famous members of the Vienna Movement and he was famous for his paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects. His primary subject was the erotic female body.

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]]> http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/later-years/feed/ Early life of Gustav Klimt http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/early-life/ http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/early-life/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:28:10 +0000 admin http://www.gustav-klimt.com/2007/10/02/early-life/ Mother and ChildGustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, a small municipality near Vienna, Austria.
He was the second of seven children and the son of a gold engraver. At the age of fourteen, he was enrolled in the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts in 1876. He was trained as an architectural decorator. He and his brother and father began working together around the year 1800.

It was after that that he began his professional career painting interior murals in large public places in Vienna.

In 1888, Gustav Klimt received the Golden Order of Merit given to him by the Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria for his artistic contributions. In 1892, both his father and brother died and Gustav met Emilie Floge, who would be his lifelong companion.

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They put out a periodical called Sacred Spring. It was during the years since 1890 that Klimt painted many of his landscapes while on holiday with the Floge family.

In 1894, Gustav Klimt was commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the great hall in the University of Vienna. His three paintings were criticized for being pornographic and weren’t displayed on the ceiling. They were eventually destroyed in World War II.

His golden phase occurred during a time of much critical acclaim. During this time, he used a lot of gold leaf in is paintings as accents. In 1911, he painted Death and Life and received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome. Klimt died in Vienna in 1918 of a stroke. He left numerous paintings unfinished.

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