He began his professional career painting interior murals and ceilings in large public buildings. Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he studied architectural painting until 1883. Many of his paintings from this period used gold leaf Pallas Athene (1898) and Judith I (1901), Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907–08). Klimt's ' Golden Phase' was marked by success. I have added this because it is probably his father's influence that inspired his later works in which he extensively used gold leaf. Gustav Klimt was born in an artistic family of three boys and four girls. His paintings of little children zing with affection for them. And he loved children too, not sexually of course, pure love. Really loved women, it is there in every painting, every pose. As Wikipedia says “ Though very active sexually, he kept his affairs discreet and he avoided personal scandal.” So he had a companion, but he also had numerous lovers. In the early 1890s, Klimt met Emilie Louise Flöge, who became his companion until the end of his life. He also produced a large number of extremely explicit drawings of women masturbating or women together, often nude, in embrace, which are also rarely mentioned by art critics.Ībout the closest they ever come to describing the real Klimt is to call his work 'frank eroticism', which is comical. The colours are rich and jewel like, the pose informal, love and affection for women sings from every canvas. Klimt's primary subject was women and more particularly nude women, although he did paint a few portraits of clothed women. What all these descriptions don't tell you, however, is just how sensuous and erotic his work is, it positively oozes sensuality. If you read the rather dry academic descriptions of his work they will tell you that he was well known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other 'art objects'. Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.
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