Saturday 30 June 2007

Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918)


Austrian painter and illustrator
Co-founder of the Vienna Sezession, a group of modernist artists who gave rise to the Secession Movement, the Viennese version of Art Nouveau.
Sexuality, eroticism, regeneration, love and death are governing themes of his work.
Well know examples are Danae (1907), Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907), The Kiss (1912) and Die Jungfrau (1913)





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