Gustav Klimt
1862–1918 · Vienna Secession · 7 works
Gustav Klimt, a goldsmith’s son, became president of the Vienna Secession in 1897, when a group of artists broke away from the city’s conservative exhibiting society. His paintings of about 1907 to 1910 shine with gold and pattern. Afterwards he kept painting portraits of Vienna’s wealthy elite, and his figure drawings are bare pencil outlines.
7 works · 1910–1918
1910–1913 · 3 works
Walk these 3In 1897 nineteen artists left Vienna’s conservative exhibiting society and formed the Secession, with Gustav Klimt as president. This room shows the city’s art from 1910 to 1918: Klimt’s late portraits and light pencil studies beside the young Egon Schiele, who drew with harder, more angular lines. Both men died in 1918, the year the Austrian empire ended.
In the museum: Vienna Secession room · 3 works
1913–1918 · 4 works
Walk these 4In the museum: Vienna Secession room · 2 works
