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GUSTAVE KLIMT
art nouveau  noun (often initial capital
letters ) Fine Arts. a style of fine and applied
art current in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, characterized chiefly by curvilinear
motifs often derived from natural forms.
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The work of the Austrian painter and illustrator
Gustav Klimt, b. July 14, 1862, d. Feb. 6, 1918,
founder of the school of painting known as the
Vienna Secession, embodies the high-keyed erotic,
psychological, and aesthetic preoccupations of
turn-of-the-century Vienna's dazzling
intellectual world. He has been called the
preeminent exponent of ART NOUVEAU.
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The Kiss Year 1907 08 Format180 x 180
cm Technique Oil on canvas Location Vienna,
Osterreichische Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Mrs. Gs personal favorite!
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Mäda Primavesi (19032000), 1912Gustav Klimt
(Austrian, 18621918)Gift of André and Clara
Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer
Steiner, 1964 (64.148)
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Hope, II. 1907-08. Gustav Klimt. (Austrian,
1862-1918). Oil, gold, and platinum on canvas, 43
1/2 x 43 1/2" (110.5 x 110.5 cm). Jo Carole and
Ronald S. Lauder, and Helen Acheson Funds, and
Serge Sabarsky  
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Hope,II A pregnant woman bows her head and
closes her eyes, as if praying for the safety of
her child. Peeping out from behind her stomach is
a death's head, sign of the danger she faces. At
her feet, three women with bowed heads raise
their hands, presumably also in prayeralthough
their solemnity might also imply mourning, as if
they foresaw the child's fate. Why, then, the
painting's title? Although Klimt himself called
this work Vision, he had called an earlier,
related painting of a pregnant woman Hope. By
association with the earlier work, this one has
become known as Hope, II. There is, however, a
richness here to balance the women's gravity.
Klimt was among the many artists of his time who
were inspired by sources not only within Europe
but far beyond it. He lived in Vienna, a
crossroads of East and West, and he drew on such
sources as Byzantine art, Mycenean metalwork,
Persian rugs and miniatures, the mosaics of the
Ravenna churches, and Japanese screens. In this
painting the woman's gold-patterned robedrawn
flat, as clothes are in Russian icons, although
her skin is rounded and dimensionalhas an
extraordinary decorative beauty. Here, birth,
death, and the sensuality of the living exist
side by side suspended in equilibrium.
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Gustav KlimtBaby (Cradle), 1917/1918Gift of
Otto and Franciska Kallir with the help of the
Carol and Edwin Gaines Fullinwider Fund1978.
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Detail of Baby (Cradle)
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Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi 1913-1914 Klimt,
Gustav Oil on canvas 140 x 85 cmToyota
Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan
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Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907 Oil and gold on
canvas, 138 x 138 Austrian Gallery, Vienna
Adele Bloch-Bauer clasping her hands (she had a
deformed finger). Dressed in gold, surrounded by
gold. A very gold picture.
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The Maiden 1912 - 13
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I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the
written word, especially if I have to say
something about myself or my work. Whoever wants
to know something about me -as an artist, the
only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my
pictures and try and see in them what I am and
what I want to do." Gustav Klimt
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Water Serpent I 1904-07
Judith I 1901
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Medicine (Hygieia) 1900 07 Format 430 x 300
cm Technique Oil on canvas Location Burned in
Schlob Immendorf, Austria, 1945
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Art Nouveau (French for 'new art') is an
international style of art, architecture and
design that peaked in popularity at the beginning
of the 20th century (1880-1914) and is
characterized by highly-stylized, flowing,
curvilinear designs often incorporating floral
and other plant-inspired motifs. The name 'Art
Nouveau' derived from the name of a shop in
Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau, at the time run
by Siegfried Bing, that showcased objects that
followed this approach to design. The style
introduced by Bing was not an immediate success
in Paris but rapidly spread to Nancy and to
Belgium(especially Brussels) where Victor Horta
and Henry Van de Velde would make major
contributions in the field of architecture and
design. In the United Kingdom Art Nouveau
developed out of the Arts and Crafts Movement.