Gustav biography

Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)

"Klimt" redirects here. For other uses, see Klimt (disambiguation).

Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

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Klimt is noted 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. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.^[3]

Early in his 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 pornog Gustav Klimt: A Biography — Google Arts & Culture RYKIT