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Klimt, The Friends

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One of the recurring themes in the works of Gustav Klimt paintings was the female shape, often shown as the femme fatale or in the nude woman. The 1916 painting “The Friends” offers an example where both of these forces seems to be at works simultaneously. The painting depicts two female friends together. One is [...]

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II

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Gustav Klimt did a number of portraits, especially of women, in his career. However, there was only one woman whom Klimt actually painted twice. That woman was Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer who was a wealthy business man and supporter of Klimt paintings.  The more famous of these two portraits is the first [...]

Hope II

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Gustav Klimt Paintings involved avid depictions of women and children also made an appearance in a number of his paintings, including works like Death and Life. However, throughout the ages depictions of pregnant women have been rare and the works of Klimt are no exception. In Hope II, Klimt makes an exception by portraying a [...]

Klimt Reproductions

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We continuously see more and more cases of art being reproduced today. Numerous websites offers reproductions of varying quality of the great masters, including Gustav Klimt reproductions. On the surface of things, reproducing Klimt could seem as among the more difficult tasks. His paintings offer sophisticated structures but not only that – he also used [...]

The Three Ages of women

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Around 1905, after having completed such works as Judith I and the university paintings, Gustav Klimt paintings “The Three Ages of women”. It was his first allegory that did not rely on historical and mythological figures. It was also the beginning of the larger multi figure allegories that took up much of the artist’s time [...]

Klimt’s Death and Life

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Among the master pieces of Gustav Klimt, Death and Life won the first price at the world exhibition in Rome in 1911. The award was a great honor for Gustav Klimt paintings and also a clear indication of his standing within the artistic community.   Death and Life has two very clearly separated parts. To the [...]

The Subject in Art

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A look at the subjects of art from the perspective of great painters such as Van Gogh and Claude Monet and how they helped to change the way that people viewed great art. This change from the renaissance splendor to more ordinary subjects whose beauty would normally be overlooked. read the full article of The [...]

Avenue in the Park of Kammer Castle

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When thinking of the mature works of Klimt, depictions of gold and symbols are what most readily come to mind. Indeed, with works like The Kiss and Adele Bloch-Bauer I among his work, it is works like these that have come to define Klimt the artist. However, it is also not the complete story about [...]

Hygeia

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Trained as an architectural painter, Gustav Klimt paintings contributed to the interior decorations of numerous public buildings in Vienna. Among the more famous cases are the faculty paintings he completed for the University of Vienna in the years 1900-07. The three paintings, Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence, covered three central faculties at the school. The paintings [...]

Buchenwald (BirchWood)

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Symbolist Gustav Klimt produced some of the most iconic images known today. The Kiss, Adele Bloch-Bauer I and more all came from his easel.