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Death and Life (German: Tod und Leben, Italian: Morte e Vita) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. The painting was started in 1908 and completed in 1915. [1] It depicts an allegorical subject in an Art Nouveau (Modern) style. The painting measures 178 by 198 centimeters and is now housed at the Leopold Museum, in Vienna.
The ascending structure narrates life's salient motifs: from friendship to love, to maternity. The man's brawny physique will inspire Egon Schiele's nudes. [15] 24: 1912–1913 – The Maiden (oil on canvas, 190 cm × 200 cm) To his usual depiction of aristocracy, Klimt now substitutes erotic allegories, as for Life and Death (No. 22).
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, [1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. [2]
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The works by Klimt which Ferdinand owned, including the two portraits, were moved to Adele's bedroom as a shrine to her. [54] The painting was lent for an exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1928 to mark the tenth anniversary of Klimt's death; in 1934 it was displayed in London as part of the Austria in London exhibition. [35]
Dame mit Fächer (right) photographed by Moritz Nähr in Klimt's studio (1918) Lady with a Fan was still on an easel in Klimt's studio, along with his unfinished work, The Bride, when he had a stroke and eventually died in early 1918. [3] Following his death in February 1918, the painting was held by the gallery of Gustav Nebehay of Vienna. [11]
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Hope II (in German, Die Hoffnung II) is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold and platinum by the Austrian symbolist artist Gustav Klimt, made in 1907–08, depicting a pregnant woman with closed eyes. [1] [2] It was the second of Klimt's works to focus on a pregnant woman, both depicting Herma, one