Gustav Klimt

An overview of Gustav Klimt’s life and work commemorating the 160th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is an artist particularly associated with Viennese Jugendstil and the “Golden Age.” As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable ladies, and as an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant terrible and the darling of Viennese society. The creator of icons of art histo...