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Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known 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…
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culture · Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918) · painter · designer · graphic artist · draftsperson · architectural drafter · exlibrist · pastellist · also Gustav Klimt, Gustave Klimt, Klimt, G. Klimt, Gust. Klimt
Born 14 July 1862 · Died 6 February 1918 · Q34661
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2026· 3 entries
The New York Times: Heir Sues to Claim a Klimt Portrait Thought Lost for Decades
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The New York Times: Gustav Klimt
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Gustav Klimt portrait breaks modern art record at auction
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Yahoo: Gustav Klimt portrait painting sells for record $236 million at New York auction
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fact checker rated the claim “Gustav Klimt painted it in the 1930s as a portrait of a Jewish woman in Vienna who later perished in the Holocaust, linking it to the Bibas family.” misleading.
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo Finance: A portrait by Gustav Klimt has been sold for $32 million at an auction in Vienna
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2023· 2 entries
Forbes: Why Gustav Klimt’s ‘Insel Im Attersee’ Auctioning At Sotheby’s Could Sell For More Than $100 Million
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Ronald Lauder agreed to restitute and repurchase Klimt's The Black Feather Hat, which had belonged to Irene Beran, before she fled the Nazis
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2022· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Immersing Yourself in the Works of Gustav Klimt
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The foundation launched the Gustav Klimt Database, an open-access online research portal documenting Klimt's works, personal documents, photographs, and life within the socio-political context of Vienna around 1900
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2021· 1 entry
The French minister of culture announced that the only Klimt in France's national collections was Nazi loot which should be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had been persecuted by Nazis
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2018· 1 entry
Have been noted by art critics to have been influenced by Klimt, in particular Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
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2017· 1 entry
Artnet: Gustav Klimt and His Glamorous Viennese Sirens Will Have Their First-Ever Show in California
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2016· 1 entry
Featuring Klimt's most famous work, The Kiss
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2015· 2 entries
Artnet: Naked Models Bring Your Favorite Gustav Klimt Paintings to Life for Charity
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The painting and five drawings were restituted and later auctioned, with the proceeds shared between the heirs and the foundation
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2013· 1 entry
By Ursula Ucicky, widow of Klimt's illegitimate son Gustav Ucicky, with a mission to "preserve and disseminate Gustav Klimt's legacy
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2012· 1 entry
Vienna marked the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt's birth with a city-wide programme of exhibitions across at least ten venues, including major retrospectives at the Wien Museum, the Albertina, and the Leopold Museum
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2009· 1 entry
The Lentos Art Museum in Linz restituted Klimt's Portrait of Ria Munk III (Frauenbildnis) to the heirs of Aranka Munk, a Jewish art collector in Vienna who was murdered in The Holocaust
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2008· 2 entries
The highest price paid for a drawing by Klimt
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Fashion designer John Galliano cited Klimt as one of his inspirations for the Christian Dior Spring–Summer 2008 haute couture collection, alongside John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madame X
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2006· 2 entries
The 1907 portrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was purchased for the Neue Galerie New York by Ronald Lauder reportedly for US$135M, surpassing Picasso's 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold 5 May 2004 for US$104M), as the highest reporte
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An Austrian art-house biographical film about Klimt's life, titled Klimt, was released with John Malkovich in the title role
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2000· 1 entry
A government committee recommended that Klimt's Lady with Hat and Feather Boa, in Belvedere Museum in Vienna, be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had owned it before the Nazi Anschluss
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1972· 1 entry
The Vienna State Opera presented a new production of Salome, an opera by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss, in a Klimt-inspired stage setting and costumes by Jürgen Rose
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1963· 1 entry
The Albertina museum in Vienna began researching the drawings of Gustav Klimt
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1938· 1 entry
After which the work was long considered lost
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1931· 1 entry
By editor Max Eisler and printed by the Austrian State Printing Office, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath was intended to complete the lifetime folio Das Werk Gustav Klimts
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1923· 1 entry
With a starting price of 15,000 Austrian krones, and by 1928 it was recorded as the property of the Jewish collector Ernestine Klein, who, with her husband Felix, had converted Klimt's former studio into a villa before t
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1919· 1 entry
By Gilhofer & Ranschburg, the edition of 500 features twenty-five monochrome and two-colour collotype reproductions, nearly indistinguishable from the original works
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1918· 4 entries
Died 1918-02-06.
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By Viennese publisher Hugo Heller, a close friend of Klimt's, and is sometimes referred to as the "Heller Portfolio"
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Having suffered from a stroke and pneumonia
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As Das Werk von Gustav Klimt and included introductory essays by Hermann Bahr and Peter Altenberg
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1917· 2 entries
Schiele developed the idea of establishing a new artist association, the Kunsthalle (Hall of Art), to help rebuild the arts after the First World War
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Hugo Heller acquired the publishing rights and remaining material from the estate of Galerie Miethke to produce a new edition of the portfolio
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1915· 2 entries
Including changing the background from gold to blue
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Klimt's mother, Anna, died
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1914· 1 entry
The decorative panel cycle Le Mille e una Notte ("One Thousand and One Nights") for the dining room of the Hotel Terminus in Venice
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1911· 1 entry
Klimt's painting Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome
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1910· 1 entry
And the International Exhibition of Prints and Drawings in Vienna in 1913, they were met by critics and viewers who were hostile towards Klimt's contemporary perspective
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1908· 1 entry
At Galerie Miethke, headed by Carl Moll, which served as Klimt's exclusive agent
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1905· 4 entries
Awarded Villa Romana Prize (1905).
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Dissensions within the Secession intensified, and when the artistic consultant of the Galerie Miethke, Carl Moll, was attacked by colleagues of the Secession for his work, a strong controversy arose that created a real i
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Klimt painted The Three Ages of Woman, depicting the cycle of life
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Had been owned by Nora Stiasny, who had been forced to sell it before being murdered by the Nazis
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1904· 1 entry
Collaborated with other artists on the lavish Stoclet Palace, the home of a wealthy Belgian industrialist that was one of the grandest monuments of the Art Nouveau age
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1902· 2 entries
Animated by resentment Klimt wanted to title the painting Goldfish (in which a naked woman ostentatiously and maliciously shows her butt), "To my critics", but was dissuaded by friends
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Klimt finished the Beethoven Frieze for the Fourteenth Vienna Secessionist Exhibition, which was intended to be a celebration of the composer and featured the monumental polychrome sculpture Beethoven by Max Klinger
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1901· 1 entry
Hermann Bahr wrote, in his Speech on Klimt: "Just as only a lover can reveal to a man what life means to him and develop its innermost significance, I feel the same about these paintings
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1897· 1 entry
Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Vienna Secession and of the group's periodical, Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring")
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1894· 1 entry
The Artistic Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Education commissioned Matsch and Klimt to decorate the Great Hall of the University of Vienna
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1892· 1 entry
The Künstlercompagnie experienced continued success and moved into a larger studio in the Josefstadt district
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1890· 1 entry
Klimt became the first recipient of the newly created Kaiserpreis award for this work
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1888· 1 entry
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria awarded him the Gold Cross of Merit, the highest artistic honour available in Austria
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1886· 1 entry
The studio partnership worked on painting decoration in the Karlsbad municipal theatre, notably painting the vaulted ceiling and theatre curtain
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1883· 2 entries
Ernst, Klimt, and Matsch moved into a joint studio in Vienna to work together on various commissions
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Studied at University of Applied Arts Vienna (1876–1883).
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1877· 1 entry
Klimt's brother, Ernst, who would become an engraver like their father, also enrolled in the Kunstgewerbeschule
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1874· 1 entry
When five-year-old Anna died after a long illness
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-07-14.
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