Farmhouse in Upper Austria

Gustav Klimt 1862 – 1918 was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted... more

by Gustav Klimt

Title

Farmhouse in Upper Austria

Artist

Gustav Klimt

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

Gustav Klimt 1862 – 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, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.

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August 13th, 2021