Essay | Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian artist and a graphic artist. He was born in Baumgarten, a suburb in Vienna on July 14, 1862. Klimt was best known for his paintings of the human body. He was a noveau artist, he painted with a flat, richy patterned and colorful style that emphasized curving and rhythmic lines. The primal forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death were the main topic in Klimt's work. He was a symbolist. He was the second oldest out of the seven children of Ernst Klimt, who was a gold engraver and his wife Anna Finster. In 1876, at the age of 14, Klimt entered the Kunstgewerbeschule (also known as the School of Applied Arts) in Vienna. He studied drawing and decorative painting here until 1883. On leaving the school he also worked with Ernst Markart and Franz Matsch where they all worked together in painting murals....
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