Portrait of Johanna Staude by Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is one of his final works, completed in the year of his death in 1918, and is thought to be unfinished. The decoration is still evident but confined to the outfit of his sitter. The background is much simplified although still nuanced with reds. His …
Portrait of Fritza Riedler was painted in 1906 in the midst of Gustav Klimt’s golden period during which he made extensive use of the gold leaf. Typically, it is highly decorative and loosely in the style of Art Nouveau – as is shown here in the use of flowing forms. The decorative headdress of the …
Goldfish is a 1902 symbolist Art Nouveau painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. Goldfische in Dutch, this is a riposte to Gustav Klimt’s critics after his Faculty paintings were decried as pornographic. This 1902 oil painting carries his highly ornamental style and a colorism typical of his ‘gold period’. This is supplemented with the foreground …
This is a Portrait of Sonja Knips from a Baroness and wife of German industrial magnate Anton Knips. Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a prominent member of the Vienna Secession artistic movement, however, did develop his own distinctive style. This 1898 portrait marks a transition in his art from an earlier more academic style to his …
