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The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death.

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The feminine world: The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt s ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna s upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure... Read Full Overview

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate... Read Full Overview

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate... Read Full Overview

La popularit? toujours vivace de Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) s'explique non seulement par l'attrait particulier qu'exercent ses toiles luxuriantes mais aussi par les th?mes universaux sur lesquels il travailla: l'amour, la beaut? f?minine, le vieillissement et la mort. Fils d'un... Read Full Overview