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The Life and Paintings of the Famous Austrian Painter Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was born July 14 1862 in Austria. He was an symbolist painter from Austria. He was also a part of the Vienna Secessionist Movement. Mostly he did paintings, murals and many sketches. He also created many art objects using gold leaves that gave him a touch of distinction. He was hugely intrigued by the female body that got betrayed through many of his paintings and for that he was often castigated and ridiculed.
Gustav Klimt was born in a place called Baumgarten situated near Vienna. He had two brothers and four sisters. Both the brothers were gifted artists including Gustav. His father Ernst Klimt was a gold engraver by profession. He had migrated from Bohemia and married Anna Klimt. Anna nursed a desire to be a singer. Klimt spent his so many years of childhood in abject poverty because those times were different with scarce work and not much economic activity.
Gustav Klimt was awarded a scholarship in 1876 by dint of which he went to study in the Vienna School of Art and Craft. In that school he learnt the tricks of Architectural Painting that he liked immensely. Hans Makart, a history painter of that time, was Klimt's idol. He began following the conservative school of painting to begin with, which later took an entirely different course. Later his brother Ernst too joined him as a painter, and he too was a good one.
Painting
Gustav Klimt himself, his brother Ernst and Franz Matschz began painting together. They were commissioned work as a team. They called themselves ‘Company of Artists'. They painted for the museum of Vienna. Klimt received Golden order of Merit from the emperor for his mural work in Vienna. He was made honorary member of University of Vienna. Emile Floge was his female companion throughout for which he was looked upon with suspicion by many. It was never clear if he had any sexual relation with her. In 1894 he was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the great hall of the University of Vienna. They were three paintings: philosophy, jurisprudence and medicine. The theme of these paintings was considered to be pornographic. There was a public outcry from all quarters against those paintings, so consequently those murals were to be removed. Klimt's language of painting was overtly sexual because that's what he intended them to be when he transformed the traditional themes based on allegory and symbolism. Those three paintings were later destroyed by the German soldiers. His other painting Nuda Verita was again an overtly sexual one. The painting depicted a starkly naked red-headed woman holding the ‘mirror of truth'.
Gustav Klimt used to say that "You should not try to please all." And that remained his philosophy, and that philosophy gave him the strength to paint the way he wished to paint. In 1902, he painted Beethoven. It was displayed in the secessionist exhibition of Vienna. He painted many landscapes too whenever he went on an outing. Klimt liked to paint figures and he continued with that. He painted near the shores of Attersee from which he too inspiration for many of his landscapes.
Gustav Klimt used gold leaf profusely in many of his works. For this he received positive appreciation and praise from all corners. Portrait of Adele bore a good testimony of Klimt's penchant for gold leaf.
His main paintings were: Judith and the head of Holofernes, The three ages of woman, Hope, Avenue in Schloss, The friends, etc. His painting named Death and Life received first prize in a world competition held in Rome. His mother Anna died in 1915, and Klimt died in 1908 after he suffered from acute pneumonia that turned out to be an epidemic. He couldn't finish many of his paintings.
Klimt mostly relaxed at home wearing only a long robe, a pair of sandals and no undergarments. Usually he didn't associate with people in the cafes or marketplace. He had lived a cloistered life mostly remaining with his family and his art. When he painted subjects, his models had to sit for long hours because he had a lengthy way of painting his portraits. He didn't write much about his work or anything, neither did he keep any diary. From his few writings it's clear that he was not interested in self-portraits because he would argue that he was not an interesting subject for painting. So, in a way, he was self-effacing, unlike many artists of his time or after. He wanted sincerely to express himself, the way he was including his strengths and weaknesses, through his paintings only. This could be one of the major reasons why he never was very serious about creating his own portrait, though he could have done it and it could have been popular and could have fetched a good amount for him.
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