Gustav Klimt Biography and Artwork

By / May 7, 2024

Gustav Klimt, a prominent Austrian symbolist painter, was born in Vienna in 1862. Klimt was the founding president of the Vienna Secession movement, that played an important role in shaping the era around 1900. Throughout his life he had to support his lower middle-class family financially.

Klimt’s art was marked by frank sexuality and primarily focused on painting the female body, which made him an important figure of the Art Nouveau movement worldwide. His works included paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art.

At age 14 he received a scholarship for the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule where he studied decorative arts. He came from a family of artists as his father Ernst Klimt was a gold engraver from Bohemia and his mother Anna Finster was an ambitious but failed musical artist.

Klimt’s legacy remained present throughout Austria beyond death in 1918.The Monument against War and Fascism erected in his honor can still be found at Hohen Market in Vienna today.

All Gustav Klimt Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name Year Medium
Park 1909 - 1910 oil,canvas
Park of Schönbrunn 1916 oil,canvas
Pear Tree 1903 oil,canvas
Philosophy (final state) 1899 - 1907 oil,canvas
Pine Forest II 1901
Poppy Field 1907 oil,canvas
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912 oil,canvas
Portrait of a Girl 1902
Portrait of a Girl, Head Slightly Turned Left 1879 charcoal,paper
Portrait of a lady 1894 oil,canvas
Portrait of a Lady 1897 pastel,paper
Portrait of a Lady c.1916 - c.1917 oil,canvas
Portrait of a Lady in White (unfinished) 1917 - 1918
Portrait of a Lady (unfinished) 1917 - 1918 pen,ink,watercolor,paper
Portrait of a Man Facing Left 1887 pencil,paper
Portrait of a man with beard 1879
Portrait of a man with beard in three quarter profil 1879
Portrait of a Woman 1898 - 1899 oil,canvas
Portrait of Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt 1914 - 1916 oil,canvas
Portrait of Emilie Flöge 1902 oil,canvas
Portrait of Emilie Flöge c.1893 oil,cardboard
Portrait of Helene Klimt 1898 oil,cardboard
Portrait of Hermine Gallia 1904 oil,canvas
Portrait of Johanna Staude 1917 - 1918
Portrait of Joseph Pembauer 1890 oil,canvas
Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein 1905 oil,canvas
Portrait of Maria Munk (unfinished) 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
Portrait of Marie Breunig 1894 oil,canvas
Portrait of Marie Henneberg 1901 - 1902 oil,canvas
Portrait of Rose von Rosthorn-Friedmann 1900 - 1901 oil,canvas
Adam and Eva (unfinished) 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
Adele Bloch-Bauer 1912 pencil,paper
After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha) 1899 oil,canvas
Allegory of Sculpture 1889 pencil,watercolor,cardboard
Amalie Zuckerkandl 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
Apple Tree, I c.1912 oil,canvas
Apple Tree II 1916 oil,canvas
Avenue of Schloss Kammer Park 1912 oil,canvas
Baby 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
Beech Grove I 1902 oil,canvas
Portrait of Serena Lederer 1899 oil,canvas
Quiet pond in the park of Appeal 1899 oil,canvas
Reclining Nude Lying on Her Stomach and Facing Right 1910
Roses under the Trees c.1905 oil,canvas
Sappho 1888 - 1890
Schloss Kammer am Attersee, II 1909 oil,canvas
Schloss Kammer on the Attersee IV 1910 oil,canvas
Schubert at the piano I c.1896 oil,canvas
Schubert at the Piano II 1899 oil,canvas
Sculpture 1896
Bewegte Wasser 1898 oil,canvas
Portrait of Gertha Felssovanyi 1902
Birch in a Forest c.1903
Blooming field 1909 oil,canvas
Blumengarten 1907 oil
Buchenhain 1902 oil,canvas
Cartoon for the Frieze of the Villa Stoclet in Brussels: Fulfillment 1905 - 1909
Cartoon for the frieze of the Villa Stoclet in Brussels: right part of the tree of life 1905 - 1909
Church in Unterach on the Attersee 1916 oil,canvas
Church in Cassone 1913 oil,canvas
Sonja Knips 1898 oil,canvas
Standing Woman in Kimono (Dame im Kimono) 1917 - 1918 pencil,paper
Study for Philosophy 1898 - 1899
Study of the Head of a Blind Man 1896 oil,canvas
The Beethoven Frieze: The Hostile Powers. Left part, detail 1902
The Beethoven Frieze: The Longing for Happiness Finds Repose in Poetry. Right wall 1902
The Beethoven Frieze: The Longing for Happiness Finds Repose in Poetry. Right wall, detail 1902
The Beethoven Frieze: The Longing for Happiness. Left wall 1902
The Big Poplar II 1902 - 1903 oil,canvas
The Black Feather Hat 1910 oil,canvas
Country Garden with Sunflowers 1905 - 1906 oil,canvas
Country House by the Attersee c.1914 oil,canvas
Cows in the barn 1900 - 1901 oil,canvas
Design for a theater curtain 1883
Design for the Stoclet Frieze. Knight 1905
Draft of a theater curtain 1894
Emilie Flöge, Aged 17 1891 pastel,paper
Expectation 1905 - 1909 watercolor,paper
Fable 1883 oil,canvas
The Bride (unfinished) 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
The dancer 1916 - 1918 oil,canvas
The Globe Theatre in London 1888 fresco
The Golden Knight 1903 oil,canvas
The House of Guardaboschi 1912 oil,canvas
The Old Burgtheater 1888 - 1889 gouache,paper
The Polecat Fur (unfinished) 1916 - 1918
The Schloss Kammer on the Attersee, III 1910 oil,canvas
The Sunflower 1906 - 1907 oil,canvas
The Swamp 1900 oil,canvas
Farm Garden with Crucifix 1911 - 1912 oil,canvas
Farmhouse in Upper Austria 1911 - 1912 oil,canvas
Farmhouses with Birch Trees 1900
Birch Forest 1903 oil,canvas
Female Nude 1887
Female organ player 1885
Fir Forest I 1901
Fishblood 1898 pen,ink
Flower Garden 1905 - 1907 oil,canvas
Fredericke Maria Beer 1916 oil,canvas
The Tall Poplar Trees II 1900 oil,canvas
The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze c.1909
The Virgin 1913 oil,canvas
The Women Friends 1916 - 1917 oil,canvas
Tragedy 1897 chalk,pencil
Two Girls With An Oleander 1890 oil,canvas
Two Studies of Sitting Nudes 1901 - 1902 pencil,paper
University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings (Medicine), final state 1900 - 1907 oil,canvas
Litzlberg am Attersee 1915 oil,canvas
Water Castle 1908 oil,canvas
Fruit Trees 1901 oil,canvas
Garden with Roosters 1917
Girl with hat and cape in profile 1898
Girl with Long Hair, with a sketch for 'Nude Veritas' 1898 - 1899 pastel,paper
Goldfish 1901 - 1902 oil,canvas
Horticultural landscape with a hilltop 1916 oil,canvas
Houses at Unterach on the Attersee c.1916 oil,canvas
Hymn to Joy. Detail from Beethoven Frieze 1902 mixed media,plaster
Idylle (Idylls) 1884 oil,canvas
Island in the Attersee 1902 oil,canvas
Water Nymphs (Silverfish) c.1899 oil,canvas
Water snakes I 1904 - 1907 watercolor,parchment
Water Snakes II 1907 oil,canvas
Italian horticultural landscape 1913 oil,canvas
Januar 1901
Josef Lewinsky 1895 oil,canvas
Junius 1896 chalk,pencil
Jurisprudence (final state) 1903 - 1907 oil,canvas
Kneeling Male Nude With Sprawled Out Arms, Male Torso 1902 pencil,paper
Lady by the Fireplace 1897 - 1898 oil,canvas
Lady with Cape and Hat 1897 - 1898
Lady with Fan 1917 - 1918 oil,canvas
Lady with Hat and Featherboa 1909 oil,canvas
Death and Life 1908 - 1916 oil,canvas
Nude Veritas 1899 Oil On Canvas
Lakeside with Birch Trees 1901
Landscape Garden (Meadow in Flower) 1906 oil,canvas
Love 1895 oil,canvas
Malcesine on Lake Garda 1913 oil,canvas
Mother with Children c.1909 - c.1910 oil,canvas
Musik (lithograph) 1901 lithography
Old Woman 1909 oil,canvas
Orchard 1896 oil,board
Painted composition design to medicine c.1887 - c.1888 oil,canvas
Painted composition draft Jusisprudenz 1897 - 1898 oil,canvas
Judith I 1901 Oil on Canvas
Water Serpents II 1904-07 Oil on Canvas
Medicine (composition draft) 1897-98 Oil on Canvas
Judith II 1909 Oil on Canvas
The Three Ages of Woman 1905 Oil on Canvas
Hope II 1907 - 1908 Oil on Canvas
Hope I 1903 Oil on Canvas
Danae 1907 - 1908 Oil on Canvas
Joseph Pembauer 1890 Oil On Canvas
Mermaids (whitefish) c. 1899 Oil On Canvas
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907 Oil on Canvas
Death and Life 1908 - 1916 Oil on Canvas
Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi 1913 Oil on Canvas
Portrait of Fritza Riedler 1906 Oil on Canvas
The Kiss 1907 - 1908 Oil on Canvas
The Kiss 1907 - 1908 Oil on Canvas
Head of a Recumbent Man, Supporting Himself 1886-88 Black chalk, highlighted in white
Garden Path with Chickens 1916 Oil on Canvas
Beethoven Frieze 1902 Casein paint on plaster
Hygeia 1900 - 1907 Oil on Canvas
Music I 1895 Oil on Canvas
Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann) c. 1894 Oil on wood
Portrait of Mada Primavesi c.1912 Oil on Canvas
Poster for the 1st Secession exhibition 1898 Lithograph
Pallas Athene 1898 Oil on Canvas
Portrait of Emilie Floge 1902 Oil on Canvas
Serpents I 1904-07 Watercolors and gold paint on parchment

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