Klimt readily accepted the principles of a conservative training his early work may be classified as academic. He revered Vienna's foremost history painter of the time, Hans Makart. Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of applied arts and crafts, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he studied architectural painting from 1876 until 1883. Klimt's younger brothers were Ernst Klimt and Georg Klimt. All three of their sons displayed artistic talent early on. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. His mother, Anna Klimt ( née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in the Austrian Empire, the second of seven children-three boys and four girls. Klimt in a light Blue Smock by Egon Schiele, 1913 Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. Įarly in his career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Gustav Klimt (J– February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Judith and the Head of Holofernes, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, The Kiss, Danaë
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