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GUSTAV KLIMT
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Photograph of Gustav
Klimt (1914) |
- Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement.
- His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe.
- Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.
- His 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.
- He is best known for The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
- Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
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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 criticised as pornographic.
(Wikipedia)
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