Artist: Klimt,
Gustav
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in Austria 1862, died 1918. Gustav Klimt enjoyed early success
as a decorative painter, working on the staircase in the Kunsthistorisches
Museum in Vienna in 1891. He resigned from the conservative
Viennese Artists Association in 1897 and, with other artists
set up the Viennese Secession. A leading symbolist and art Nouveau
painter, he exerted particular influence on Kokoschla and Schiele.
Most of his portraits are of woman, often archetypal, idealized
woman depicted in an array of alluring poses. |
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