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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.
The man in the original sketch has been replaced by the skull figure in the final painting. There is scant documentation of Klimt's personal life, but much is known about his artistic career. Gustav Klimt was born in Austria in 1862 and at the age of fourteen received a grant to study at the Kunstgewerbeschule (The Vienna
[1] [4] Klimt may have introduced her to Altenberg, who was part of his inner circle of friends and admirers. [4] After Klimt died in February 1918, Altenberg inscribed a eulogy on a drawing that Klimt had made of Staude, and later wrote that she was a "modern saint" for helping to care for him during his last year of life.
In 2000, the Austrian restitution commission advised the return of Klimt's Apple Trees II, hanging in the Belvedere Museum, to the heirs of Nora Stiasny. [8] However, the commission made a mistake. It was later discovered that the painting had belonged to Serena Lederer , and not Nora Stiasny, who had owned a different Klimt.
A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction estimate.. The “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” thought to be one ...
The work features women in varying stages of age, symbolizing the cycle of life. The three are central on the canvas and are the focal point of the work. The background has a lack of depth, making it look very two dimensional. The colors are neutral and create a restful effect. [2] Klimt's common use of colorful motifs is also evident in this work.
[8] [9] In 1891, Helene, one of Emilie's two older sisters, married Ernst Klimt, the brother of Gustav Klimt. When Ernst died in December 1892, Gustav was made Helene's guardian. At that time Emilie was eighteen years old and Gustav became a frequent guest at the home of her parents, spending the summers with the Flöge family at Lake Attersee. [1]
Margarethe Stonborough-Wittgenstein painted by Gustav Klimt for her wedding portrait in 1905. On 7 January 1905, she married a wealthy American art collector, Jerome Stonborough (1873 – June 1938), [3] who was of German Jewish ancestry and born Jerome Herman Steinberger; he had had his name changed to Stonborough in 1900.