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Gustav Klimt - Biography
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By Gustav Klimt 1862-1918
The Art Nouveau movement in Austria was known as the Secession. Gustav Klimt, its founder and president from 1897 to 1905, created the iconic painting The Kiss, symbolizing the Vienna Secession.
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Gustav Klimt: Biography
Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 as the son of a gold and silver engraver in a suburb of Vienna. He received formal art training at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts. In 1882, Klimt opened his own studio with his brother Ernst and fellow student Franz Matsch, focusing on mural paintings. The studio quickly gained recognition, securing commissions from theaters, museums, and public institutions.
The Founder of the Vienna Secession
In 1897, Gustav Klimt, along with other artists, founded the Vienna Secession and became its first president. By this time, Klimt had developed a distinctive style that would become a defining feature of the movement. Similar to
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Gustav Klimt Biography | LCIS | SIU
The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator Gustav Klimt, b. July 14, 1862, d. Feb. 6, 1918, founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession, embodies the high-keyed erotic, psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling intellectual world.
He has been called the preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU. Klimt began (1883) as an artist-decorator in association with his brother and Franz Matsoh. In 1886-92, Klimt executed mural decorations for staircases at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; these confirmed Klimt's eclecticism and broadened his range of historical references. Klimt was a cofounder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, a group of modernist architects and artists who organized their own exhibition society and gave rise to the SECESSION MOVEMENT, or the Viennese version of Art Nouveau. He was also a frequent contributor to Ver Sacrum, the group's journal.
Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) (140 Kb); Oil and gold on canvas, 138 x 138; Austrian
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Gustav Klimt Biography In Details
Early life & education
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, the second of seven children — three boys and four girls. All three sons displayed artistic talent early on. His father, Ernst Klimt, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. Ernst married Anna Klimt (née Finster), whose unrealized ambition was to be a musical performer. Klimt lived in poverty for most of his childhood, as work was scarce and the economy difficult for immigrants.
In 1876, Klimt was enrolled in the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he studied until 1883, and received training as an architectural painter. He revered the foremost history painter of the time, Hans Makart. Unlike many young artists, Klimt accepted the principles of conservative Academic training. In 1877 his brother Ernst, who, like his father, would become an engraver, also enrolled in the school. The two brothers and their friend Franz Matsch began working together; by 1880 they had received numerous commissions as a team they called the &quo
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