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This is a list of paintings by Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). It is believed that Klimt painted over 200 paintings, of which over 160 are known.[1]
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List of paintings by Gustav Klimt
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Early works
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Klara Klimt[2] | c. 1880 | Oil on canvas, 30.3 cm × 21.3 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Klara Klimt (1860 – 1937) was the oldest of Gustav’s six siblings and they shared an apartment with their sister Hermine until Gustav’s death in 1918. The painting shows Klara around the age of 20 and Klimt painted it while studying at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. It is exhibited on permanent loan from a descendant of Klimt.[2] |
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Forest Floor[3] | 1881/1882 | Oil on canvas, 10 cm × 8 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | |
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Male Nude[4] | 1883 | Oil on canvas, 68 cm × 54.8 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Sitting Nude Man Turned to the Left[5] | 1883 | Oil on canvas, 46 cm × 37 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | The painting was dated by Klimt himself, painted during his time as a student at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts.[5] |
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Fable[6] | 1883 | Oil on canvas, 83.5 cm × 116 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | |
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Head Study of a Girl from Haná[7] | c. 1883 | Oil on wood, 28.6 cm × 22.7 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | This small painting is undated, however, it is presumed that it was created when Gustav Klimt was still a student.[7] |
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Idyll[8] | 1884 | Oil on canvas, 49.7 cm × 74 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | |
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Allegory of Sacred Music (Draft)[9] | 1884 | Oil on canvas, 38.5 cm × 50 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | This painting was a preparatory draft for a ceiling painting for the city theatre in Rijeka, which was completed by the studio of Ernst and Gustav Klimt and Franz Matsch the following year.[9] |
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Design for a Curtain for the Karlovy Vary Municipal Theater[10] | 1884/1885 | Oil on canvas, 52.7 cm × 42.5 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna[10] | When Klimt and his two colleagues (Ernst Klimt and Franz von Matsch) received the commission to design the curtain for the Karlovy Vary Municipal Theater around 1884, they already had considerable experience in the field of theater design. Klimt's design for was directly inspired by similar curtain designs by Hans Makart.[10] |
Auditorium in the Old Burgtheater[11] | 1888–1889 | Gouache on paper, 82 cm × 92 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | ||
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Sappho[12] | c. 1888 | Oil on canvas, 39.4 cm × 31.7 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | Representation of the Greek lyric poet born on the island of Lesbos. Still in the sketch stage, this painting fuses the Pre-Raphaelites' influence with the literary and dreamy symbolism of Moreau. Built on orthogonal lines, the canvas is pervaded by an allegoric mythology already present in Klimt's Burgtheater work. The detailed descriptive traits are a consequence of the period's historicism style, celebrating beauty in an atmosphere of refined archaism.[13] |
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Portrait of Joseph Pembaur[14] | 1890 | Oil on canvas, 68.4 cm × 55.4 cm | Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck | A realistic portrait of pianist and piano teacher, Joseph Pembaur. The photographic realism of the face generates a subtle tension with the symbolism of the stylised elements. In this period, the stylistic dilemma tormenting Klimt between historicism and symbolism is here resolved by the mediation of archaic forms, which attribute to Music, as identified by the instruments, an absolute and eternal value.[13][15] Also known as Portrait of Joseph Pembauer.[16][17] |
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Portrait of Mathilde Trau[18] | c. 1893 | Oil on canvas, 79 cm × 58.5 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The painting depicts Mathilde Trau, the wife of Franz Trau, who ran a famous tea shop in Vienna. Klimt also painted a portrait of him. In terms of format and composition, this portrait is comparable to contemporary portrait photographs. The painting technique reflects a realism similar to the aesthetics of photography. However, beginning in the mid-1890s, Klimt's artistic approach shifted towards an impressionistically influenced and more atmospheric style.[18] |
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Portrait of a Woman[19] | 1893/1894 | Oil on canvas, 168 cm × 84 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | A realistic full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress and Klimt's first representative portrait of a woman.[19] The subject is Marie Breunig, a friend and client of fashion designer Emilie Flöge, Klimt's life companion.[19][20] |
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Portrait of an unknown woman[21] | c. 1894 | Oil on paperboard, 30 cm × 23 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | An inscription names the subject as Mrs. Heymann.[21] |
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Seated Young Girl[22] | c. 1894 | Oil on wood, 14.1 cm × 9.6 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | |
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Love[23] | 1895 | Oil on canvas, 62.5 cm × 46.5 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | For its evanescent rarefaction the love scene reveals its symbolist mould. The work is part of Klimt's series of Allegories and Emblems, whose intent was to translate life's most significant moments, and its psychological nuances, into forms of metaphorical intensity. |
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Music I[24] | 1895 | Oil on canvas, 37 cm × 44.5 cm | Neue Pinakothek, Munich[25] | Allegoric representation of Music, which Klimt painted several times in various renderings. Besides the lyre, symbol of music, this particular canvas emphasises the sphinx (alluding to artistic freedom), the Silenus mask on the extreme left, the lion's teeth at the centre (a metaphor of the spread of new ideas) and finally the woman's meditative face. |
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Josef Lewinsky as Carlos in Clavigo[26] | 1895 | Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 44 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | Klimt depicts the court actor Josef Lewinsky on stage, as Carlos in Clavigo, a tragedy by Goethe. The painting was commissioned as an illustration for a book on the history of Viennese theater.[26] |
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Portrait of a Lady with a Purple Scarf[27] | c. 1895 | Oil on canvas, 67 cm × 41 cm | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna | Also known as Portrait of a Lady with a Lilac Scarf. The painting was in a private collection for almost a century before being bequeathed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 2014.[28] |
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The Blind Man[29] | c. 1896 | Oil on canvas, 66 cm × 53 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | |
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Portrait of an Old Man in Profile (Count Traun?)[30] | c. 1896 | Oil on cardboard, 46 cm × 35.2 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | While the painting's title suggests that it was a portrait commission, the identity of the subject is not known. When Klimt died, the painting was still in his possession, making it unlikely that it was commissioned by a third party. Therefore it is probable that Klimt painted this work on his own interest.[30] |
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Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona | 1897 | Oil on canvas, 65.5 cm x 54 cm) | Privately owned | The painting disappeared due to Nazi looting and reappeared in 2025. It had belonged to the couple Ernestine and Felix Kelin, who had fled to Monaco in 1938 for being Jews, leaving the painting at their residence in Vienna. The last time the painting had been seen in public was in 1928. |
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Medicine (Draft)[24] | 1897–1898 | Oil on canvas, 74.7 cm × 54.8 cm | Israel Museum, Jerusalem[31] | |
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Portrait of Sonja Knips[32] | 1897/1898 | Oil on canvas, 141.5 cm × 141.5 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The baroness Sonja Knips was one of Klimt's most prominent clients. In this painting, Klimt chose the square format for a portrait for the first time. This portrait helped him in becoming one of the most sought-after portraitists in Viennese society at the time.[32] With a style reminding of the Belgian artist Fernand Khnopff, Klimt paints Knips, who was active with her husband in the circle of the Wiener Werkstätte. The face's plasticity contrasts with the soft inconsistency of the fluffy dress. In this diagonal composition, the evanescence of the chair, the book's red blur, the head surrounded by flowers, all anticipate the portraits of the golden period.[citation needed] |
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Lady by the Fireplace[33] | 1897/1898 | Oil on canvas, 41 cm × 66 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Portrait of Helene Klimt[34] | 1898 | Oil on carboard, 60 cm × 40 cm | Privately owned[35][34] | Depicting Klimt's six-year-old niece, whom Klimt helped look after following the death of his brother Ernst in 1892. Klimt became her legal guardian.[20][34] |
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Pallas Athena[36] | 1898 | Oil on canvas, 75 cm × 75 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | Enhanced by the golden frame created by Klimt's brother, Georg, the goddess Athena is portrayed in front of a frieze borrowed from a black-figure Attic vase of the 6th century BC. The red hair comes out of the helmet so as to underscore the goddess' femininity, notwithstanding her armour. Following the example of the Munich Secession, Athena is chosen as the patron numen of the Vienna Secession.[13] |
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Moving Water[24] | 1898 | Oil on canvas, 52 cm × 65 cm | Privately owned | |
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Full-Face Head of a Girl[24] | 1898 | Oil on canvas, 38 cm × 43 cm | Privately owned | |
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Orchard in the Evening[37] | 1898 | Oil on canvas, 69 cm × 55.6 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Exhibited on permanent loan from a private Austrian collection.[37] |
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After the Rain[38] | 1898 | Oil on canvas, 80 cm × 40 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | In August 1898, Klimt spent his first summer in the Salzkammergut, staying in St. Agatha near Lake Hallstatt with the Flöge family. There, he painted four landscapes, including After the Rain. These works already show the influence of French Impressionism through soft, fleeting brushwork, as well as inspiration from Japanese woodcuts. After the Rain became Klimt’s first work to enter a public collection in 1900.[38] The oblong format and the particular photographic style affirm their Japanese derivation. The rainy mist enveloping the whole, as well as the ornamental interpretation of every element, recall Whistler's evanescent landscapes.[39] Also titled Garden with chickens in St Agatha.[40] |
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Full-Face Portrait of a Lady[24] | c. 1898–1899 | Oil on cardboard, 45 cm × 34 cm | Privately owned[41] | |
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Schubert at the Piano[24] | 1899 | Oil on canvas, 150 cm × 200 cm | Destroyed by fire in 1945 | Critic and writer Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) wrote: " Klimt's Schubert is the finest painting ever done by an Austrian". The painting was destroyed by retreating German forces in 1945.[42] |
Serena Pulitzer Lederer[43] | 1899 | Oil on canvas, 190.8 cm × 85.4 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | ||
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Nuda Veritas[24] | 1899 | Oil on canvas, 252 cm × 56.2 cm | Austrian Theatre Museum, Vienna[44] | The frame's upper margin quotes a verse by Schiller, indicating, in its difficult consensus, a distinctive sign of quality: "If you can't please everyone with your deeds and your art – please only a few. To please many is bad. Schiller." Aim of this quote is to incite the Vienna Secession to action. Another version of this work exists as an etching for the magazine Ver Sacrum. The mirror held by Veritas is a modern invitation to "Know yourself", whereas the flowers are symbols of regeneration.[13] |
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A Morning by the Pond[45] | 1899 | Oil on canvas, 75.2 cm × 75.2 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Klimt's first square landscape it was painted in Eglsee during a summer with the Flöge family in Golling.[45] Also known as Still Pond or Reflection, the painting’s style is reminiscent of Monet’s atmospheric landscapes.[46] |
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Water Nymphs[24] | c. 1899 | Oil on canvas, 82 cm × 52 cm | Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien [de], Vienna | Names for the painting include Water Nymphs, Silver Fish, and Mermaids. It portrays two submerged figures devoid of bodies or limbs, instead composed of heads and long, black hair. This unconventional depiction challenges typical mermaid imagery with a disturbing variation and takes hair fetishism to its extreme, producing sex objects with no limbs, bodies or even sex organs. Their simple form is open to a range of interpretations: from severed heads in mythology to cherubic figures or the serpent of Eden. Klimt combines a range of archetypal themes and delievers a sensation of unease.[47] |
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Old Man on His Deathbed[48] | 1900 | Oil on cardboard, 30.4 cm × 44.8 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | Klimt often depicted the dead in his work although they were rarely publicly exhibited due to their personal nature. While such subjects are usually identifiable, the identity of the old man in this portrait is unknown. Klimt often painted shortly after a subject’s death, sometimes on the same day, suggesting the man may have died in 1900. The painting was likely cropped, so today only part of the original composition remains.[48] |
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The Black Bull[49] | 1900 | Oil on canvas, 82 cm × 82 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | |
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The Large Poplar I[50] | 1900 | Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 80.3 cm | Neue Galerie, New York | |
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On Lake Attersee[51] | 1900 | Oil on canvas, 80.2 cm × 80.2 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Contemporary critics praised the painting at the 10th Secession Exhibition in 1901.[51] It was painted from the jetty of a small boathouse by the Flöge residence during his first stay on the Attersee in the summer of 1900.[52][51] |
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Farmhouse with Birch Trees[53] | 1900 | Oil on canvas, 80.3 cm × 80.3 cm | Privately owned | |
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Judith I[54] | 1901 | Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 84 cm × 42 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The painting depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes. Judith's face exudes a mixed charge of voluptuousness and perversion. Its traits are transfigured so as to obtain the greatest degree of intensity and seduction, which Klimt achieves by placing the woman on an unattainable plane. Notwithstanding the alteration of features, one can recognise Klimt's friend and maybe lover Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of another two portraits respectively done in 1907 and 1912, and also painted in the Pallas Athena.[55] The slightly lifted head has a sense of pride, whereas her visage is languid and sensual, with parted lips in between defiance and seduction. The contrast between the black hair and the golden luminosity of the background enhance elegance and exaltation. The fashionable hairdo is emphasized by the stylised motifs of the trees fanning on the sides.[13] |
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Fir Forest I[56] | 1901 | Oil on canvas, 90.5 cm × 90 cm | Zug Art Museum [de], Zug, Switzerland | |
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Goldfish[24] | 1901–1902 | Oil on canvas, 181 cm × 66.5 cm | Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn[57] | Klimt initially thought to title the painting To my critics in response to criticism received for his Faculty Paintings at the University of Vienna.[58] The canvas has a symbolic intention and is dominated by the bare back, reminiscent of Rodin. |
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Beech Forest | 1902 | Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 100 cm | The series of Klimt's beech forests corresponds to the one with lakes, created during the same period. repeated are the high horizon, the squarish format, the close-up perspective. The rhythmic disposition of trees, rather than creating optical confusion, plays on the colours' vividness and the trunks' slenderness, so that the viewer is immersed in the scenery. | |
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Portrait of Emilie Flöge[59] | 1902 | Oil on canvas, 178 cm × 80 cm | Vienna Museum, Vienna | |
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Portrait of Gertrud Loew[60] | 1902 | Oil on canvas, 149.5 cm × 45 cm | Privately owned[61] | The painting has also been called Gertha Felsöványi.[24] |
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The Large Poplar II[62] | 1902/1903 | Oil on canvas, 100.8 cm × 100.8 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Also known as Gathering Storm.[62] |
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Hope I[63] | 1903 | Oil on canvas, 189.2 cm × 67 cm | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa | The unusual subject and its formal rendition created critical perplexity, so much so that, in order for Klimt to exhibit this work, he had to give it a religious interpretation. The pregnancy theme had already been present in one of the artist's figures in Medicine and the Beethoven Frieze. In 1907–08 Klimt will paint a second version, Hope II, this time with the pregnant woman wearing a highly stylised and geometric dress. |
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The Golden Knight[64] | 1903 | Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 100 cm | Privately owned | Also known as Life is a Struggle.[64] |
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Pale Face[65] | 1903 | Oil on canvas, 80 cm × 40 cm | Neue Galerie, New York | |
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Portrait of Hermine Gallia[66] | 1904 |
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Water Serpents I[68] | 1904–1907 | Mixed media on parchment, 50 cm x 20 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The painting combines various techniques, including watercolour with gold, silver, platinum, and brass on parchment. It was primarily painted in 1904 with minor additions in 1907.[68] The painting is also known as Water Snakes I, Friends and The Hydra.[69][24] The composition showed stretched slender figures typical of the Jugendstil, which displayed an abstract illustration of a long-haired woman embracing a serpent-like figure. |
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Water Serpents II[24] | 1904–1907 | Oil on canvas, 80 cm × 145 cm | Privately owned[70] | Also known as Water Snakes II.[24] |
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The Three Ages of Woman[24] | 1905 | Oil on canvas, 180 cm × 180 cm | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome[71] | This painting won the Prize at the Esposizione d'Arte Internazionale of Rome in 1911 and the following year was purchased by the Roman Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. The canvas mixes a geometrising decorativism and an unexpected psychological introspection in the expressions of the three figures: the dramatic premonition of death in old age, the tender protectiveness of the young woman, and the contented sleep of the child. |
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Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein[24] | 1905 | Oil on canvas, 180 cm × 90 cm | Neue Pinakothek, Munich[72] | |
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Tree of Life | 1905–1909 | Carton/panel, 138.8 cm × 102 cm | Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna | Central panel for the mural at the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. The interior of this building was decorated with marble paneling and artworks,[73] and included the mosaic friezes[74] by Klimt and the murals by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel.[75] This integration of architects, artists, and artisans made Stoclet Palace an example of Gesamtkunstwerk, one of the defining characteristics of Jugendstil. The sketches of Klimt's work for the dining room can be found in the permanent collection of Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna. The panel shows different influences, converging together: from the Byzantine mosaic art to the Japanese prints. But especially dominant is the Egyptian culture, in the posture of the figures and the iteration of the decorative motifs. |
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Stoclet Frieze[76] | 1905–1911 | Mosaic frieze | Stoclet Palace, Brussels, Belgium | Klimt's years of work on this commission produced 9 working drawings at 1:1 scale (below) which were then realised as the final mosaics.[77] The tree of life is the frieze's main motif. The Stoclet Frieze was the last of Klimt's mural works.[78] Today it is still owned by the Stoclet family.[79] |
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Portrait of Fritza Riedler[80] | 1906 | Oil on canvas, 153 cm × 133 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The painting depicts Fritza Riedler, the wife of a wealthy mechanical engineer. The delicate features of her pale face contrast strikingly with her dark hair. She exhibits not the slightest expression nor movement. Klimt combines a lifelike depiction of the model with an ornamental dissolution of the surroundings, rather than a realistic space. Even the armchair becomes part of this design, made up of flowing lines and eye motifs inspired by ancient Egyptian art. This is characteristic of Klimt's work at this time.[80] Portrait of Fritza Riedler is one of the most exhibited of Klimt's portraits.[citation needed] |
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Farm Garden with Sunflowers[81] | 1906 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I[82] | 1907 | Oil, gold and silver on canvas, 140 cm × 140 cm | Neue Galerie, New York | Both the current holder of the portrait—the Neue Galerie New York—and the art historian Elana Shapira describe how the background and gown contain symbols suggestive of erotica, including triangles, eggs, shapes of eyes and almonds. |
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Blooming Poppies[83] | 1907 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | Klimt painted this work in the area around Lake Attersee in Upper Austria, where he spent his summer holidays every year from 1900 onwards.[83] Also known as Poppy Field.[84] |
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The Kiss[85] | 1907–1908 | Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 180 cm × 180 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts Movement. The work is composed of conventional oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf, an aspect that gives it its strikingly modern, yet evocative appearance. The Kiss is widely considered a masterpiece of the early modern period. It is a symbol of Vienna Jugendstil—Viennese Art Nouveau—and is considered Klimt's most popular work.[86] |
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Hope II[87] | 1907–1908 | Oil, gold, and platinum on canvas, 110.5 cm × 110.5 cm | Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
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Danaë[24] | 1907–1908 | Oil on canvas, 77 cm x 83 cm | Privately owned | Representation of the mythological daughter of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice. Danaë was a popular subject in the early 1900s for many artists; she was used as the quintessential symbol of divine love, and transcendence. While imprisoned by her father, King of Argos, in a tower of bronze, Danaë was visited by Zeus, symbolized here as the golden rain flowing between her legs. It is apparent from the subject's face and hands that she is aroused by the golden stream. In this work, she is curled in a sumptuous royal purple veil which refers to her imperial lineage.[a] Many early portrayals of Danaë were erotic; other paintings completed in similar style are Klimt's Medicine (1900– 1907), and Water Snakes (1904–1907).[88] |
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Sunflower[89] | 1907/1908 | Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | Klimt's Sunflower has repeatedly been interpreted as a humanoid figure. The famous art critic of the Vienna Secession, Ludwig Hevesi, saw it as a "fairy in love." Others even considered this painting a hidden portrait of the designer Emilie Flöge.[89] |
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9 working drawings for Stoclet Frieze[77] | 1908-1911 | Mixed media on paper | Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna | Including Expectation (Dancer), The Tree of Life, and Fulfillment.[77] |
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Lady With Hat and Feather Boa[24] | 1909 | Oil on canvas, 69 cm × 55 cm | Privately owned[90] | |
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Park at Kammer Castle[91] | 1909 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Neue Galerie, New York | |
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Judith II[92] | 1909 | Oil on canvas, 176 cm × 46 cm | Ca' Pesaro, Venice | |
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The Park[93] | 1909–1910[94] | Oil on canvas, 110.5 cm × 110.5 cm | Museum of Modern Art, New York | One of Klimt's paintings closer to abstraction, but not quite embracing it in full. The multiplicity of colours and reedy forms of vegetation infuse a sense of vivaciousness that connects with Nature's life cycle. The focus is a close-up subject, as often occurs in Klimt's landscapes, whereas the execution is reminiscent of exquisite mosaics.[13] |
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Mother with Two Children (Family)[95] | 1909/1910 | Oil on canvas, 90 cm × 90 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Schloss Kammer on the Attersee III[96] | 1909/1910 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | This painting shows the lake-facing façade of Kammer Castle. Klimt likely captured this view on canvas from the opposite shore using a telescope.[96] |
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The Black Feathered Hat[24] | 1910 | Oil on canvas, 79 cm × 63 cm | Privately owned[97] | Also known as Lady with Feather Hat,[97] the red hair and the disproportionate hat were already present in Klimt's Lady with Hat and Feather Boa (1909). The unfinished style, unusual for the Austrian artist, seems to recall that of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work was seen by Klimt in Paris the previous year: this is echoed by the synthesis of the image, lacking any decorative support, and its low tones.[13] |
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Death and Life[98] | 1910/1915 | Oil on canvas, 180.8 cm × 200.6 cm[99] | Leopold Museum, Vienna | First painted in 1910, Klimt decided to fundamentally revise the work in 1915.[98] Also known as Death and Love.[99] The marked rupture cutting this composition in two parts represents several symbolic motifs: the disquieting and dark image of Death looms over the entangled group of the human bodies, where colour retrieves its decorative vividness. The ascending structure narrates life's salient motifs: from friendship to love, to maternity. The man's brawny physique will inspire Egon Schiele's nudes.[100] |
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Upper Austrian Farmhouse[101] | 1911 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | The influence of both van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec can be seen in this painting through his brushwork and contrasting of textures.[102] |
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Avenue to Kammer Palace[103] | 1912 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II[24] | 1912 | Oil on canvas, 190 cm × 120 cm | Privately owned[104] | |
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Mäda Primavesi[105] | 1912–1913 | Oil on canvas, 149.9 cm × 110.5 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
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The Maiden[106] | 1913 | Oil on canvas, 190 cm × 200 cm | National Gallery, Prague | The paiting is also known as Virgin or The Virgin.[24][107] To his usual depiction of aristocracy, Klimt now substitutes erotic allegories, as for Death and Life. Here the entanglement of women has lost any realism, as is apparent in the almost skeletal nude on the left, and thus it is absorbed in the decorative scheme. The association of beauty with such unnatural poses, indicates an allusion to life's ephemerality, a reflection of modern society. |
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Italian Garden Landscape[108] | 1913 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Zug Art Museum, Zug, Switzerland | |
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Forester's Lodge in Weißenbach I[109] | 1914 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna | |
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Litzlbergkeller[110] | 1915/1916 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Leopold Museum, Vienna | Close-up view of the restaurant “Litzlberger Keller”. The painting was commissioned by Otto Primavesi [de].[110] |
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Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer[111] | 1916 | Oil on canvas, 180 cm × 126 cm | Privately owned | Klimt began painting this work in 1914,[111] also known by the title Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt.[24] An oriental note dominates in the figurines framing the Baroness. To the pyramidal structure of the subject is accompanied an abstract and serrated syntax, typical of Klimt's last output. Having concluded his "golden phase" since 1909, and overcome the subsequent crisis, the artist rejects Greek or Egyptian modules and concentrates on a joyful chromatic vibrancy, close to Matisse.[13] |
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Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer[112] | 1916 | Oil on canvas, 168 cm × 130 cm | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv | This woman, daughter of the Kaiserbar's owner, was also portrayed Egon Schiele.[citation needed] Klimt portrays her in a dress made by the Wiener Werkstätte.[113] In order to emphasize its pompous style, he replicates the oriental elements of the Baroness Elisabeth Lederer, taken from a Korean vase of hers. The three colours at top right – red, white, and black – allude to the Austrian flag and the outbreak of World War I.[citation needed] |
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Garden landscape with mountain top (parish garden)[114] | 1916 | Oil on canvas, 110 cm × 110 cm | Zug Art Museum, Zug, Switzerland | |
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Women Friends[24] | 1916–1917 | Oil on canvas, 99 cm × 99 cm (?) | Destroyed by fire in 1945 | The painting was destroyed by retreating German forces in 1945. Only studies and photographs remain.[115] |
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Portrait of a Lady | 1916–1917 | Oil on canvas, 60 cm × 55 cm | Galleria d'arte moderna Ricci Oddi, Piacenza | Rendered in a brisk and vivacious style, the portrait is pervaded by a serene spirit, unusual for Klimt. Here he alters the face's realism with bright colour daubes, thus reaching an expressionist style, especially close to Jawlensky's images. However, to the lumpy and violent deformation of his colleagues' brush, Klimt opposes his usual ornamental finery. |
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Adam and Eve[116] | 1916–1918 | Oil on canvas, 173 cm × 60 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere | Unfinished painting. Eve is the main figure in the painting, with Adam in the background serving to contrast with her milky white skin.[117] It takes a symbolic significance for its biblical subject as well as Eve's facial rendering, with her reclined head and a sweet yet enigmatic smile. The lower section, with its flowers and background decorativism, is typical of Klimt; the upper section, where the figures are contraposed to a monochrome backdrop, reveals a synthesis of strained lines closer to Schiele's style.[13] |
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Johanna Staude[118] | 1917/1918 | Oil on canvas, 70 cm × 50 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere | Unfinished.[119] Another portrait, where Klimt concentrates on the body upper half, with an arlequin blue motif of leaves in the dress. |
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Lady with a Fan[120] | 1917/1918 | Oil on canvas, 100 cm × 100 cm | Privately owned | One of Klimt's last finished works.[121] |
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Lady in White[122] | 1917/1918 | Oil on canvas, 70 cm × 70 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere | |
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The Bride[123] | 1917/1918 | Oil on canvas, 165 cm × 191 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere | When Klimt died, this painting was left unfinished and leaning against the easel in his studio. It shows clearly Klimt's working method with preliminary sketches still visible, while in other places motifs are already fully developed.[123] |
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Amalie Zuckerkandl[124] | 1917/18 (possibly begun as early as 1913/14) | Oil on canvas, 128 cm × 128 cm | Österreichische Galerie Belvedere | Unfinished.[124] |
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Posthumous Portrait of Ria Munk III[125] | 1917/1918 | Oil on canvas, 178.1 cm × 89.9 cm | Privately owned[126] | Unfinished.[125] |
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