The life and Paintings of Gustav Klimt

Feb. 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and also one of the most important members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include murals, sketches, paintings and other art objects. Female body was Klimt’s primary subject. His works are marked by a frank eroticism—nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil

Gustav Klimt's illustrious career is a long tale of exceptional achievement in art. Klimt paintings are still very popular across the world, far beyond the boundaries of his Australia. This article will give you some more information about Klimt and his paintings so as to choose ideal oil painting reproductions.

There is one painting we will pay special attention to which remains one of the most popular oil painting reproductions and was reproduced thousands of times. That is The Kiss, Klimt painted this painting in 1908. In order to understand this famous painting, we need to know the whole art career of Klimt, especially the timing of his major works and see where this popular painting fits in.

Gustav Klimt was born in the village of Baumgarten, near Vienna, on July 14, 1862. At age fourteen, after entering Vienna's University of Plastic Arts he began painting. He continued his studies at the University until he graduated in 1882. At that time he was commissioned to produce several ornamental works, utilizing his schooling in modernist design. After entering the Vienna Public Art School at the age of 14, Gustav Klimt set out on a path that would eventually lead to stardom and international acclaim.

Klimt started his art career and spent the first few years designing stylish staircase decorative additions which gained him good feedback from his early customers, some well known Austrian museums in Vienna. Klimt's notorious style also began to take shape already with gold paint, areas of detail and areas of abstract space, symbolism, the female figure appearing in one of his very early piece, The Tragedy.

1892 is an important period during Klimt’s live with the death of both his father and his brother Ernst. On a more positive note, he moved into a larger studio as his career started to gain momentum.

Gustav soon started to gain as much controversy for his contemporary style as fame, and his work in public institutions was to dry up due to the conservative nature of their management. It was around this time that the Secession Movement began whose timing and ambitions were ideally suited to Klimt. He played vital role in this movement for some years to come as it developed into a popular element of the Vienna art scene, with many foreign contemporary artists included too.

Klimt's first levels of acclaim for his art came at around the turn of the century when he was featured, successfully, at the Paris World Fair. The preceding year he painted "Medicine" and "Judith and Holofernes" which remain as two of his most well known paintings with art lovers of the modern day. Beethoven Frieze and a portrait of Emilie Flöge followed in 1902 as the Secession Building continued to attract great numbers of visitors from both Austria and abroad.

Klimt's foreign popularity took him to Belgium and Italy as the Secession Movement built up a reputation throughout Europe. A private mansion commissioned some murals and he explored the artistic history of Italy looking for further inspiration. "Water Snakes" was also created around this time, 1904, which is another of his most famous paintings.

Klimt decided to back his own artistic beliefs and quit the Secession movement along with with a number of other members to set up "Kunstschau". This move helped to inspire Klimt to then paint "The Three Ages of Women" - another classic.

1907 and 1908 marked a key stage in Klimt's career, probably the most important, as he painted "Danae", "Adele Bloch-Bauer" & "The Kiss". The Kiss remains his most famous painting, and is the most purchased art reproduction, currently, with art lovers picking it up in print or poster form to show off in their homes and offices.

Klimt's concentration on eroticism as an inspiration for his art, which had earlier brought him controversy, began to be mixed in with other themes, most notably death, as seen in "Judith II", "Hope" & "Death and Life".

Gustav Klimt continued to gift the art world more beautiful paintings up until his sudden death in 1918 after a combination of a stroke and pneumonia. The most famous Austrian artist was suddenly gone, but his original, glorious art still lives in on the hearts of art fans across the world.

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