Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt(1918- 1918)
style:art nouveau;known as "youth style" in Germany
GUSTAV KLIMT symbolist painter(1862-1918) -born in Vienna, Austria -he attended Kunstgewerbeshule (school of arts and crafts) for seven years -he was one of the greatest decorative painters of the twentieth century -he produced one of the century's most significant bodies of erotic art -Gustav Klimt's most famous painting is "The Kiss" -one of Europe's most famous artists
Gustav and his girlfriend in "The Kiss"
"The Tree of Life"
erotic "Mother and Child"
"Donna con Ventaglio"aka: "Women with Fan"
"Beech Grove"
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true." -Gustav Klimt
"Gustav Klimt's unique style combines sensuality, realism, and spirituality to make his work recognizable and among the most popular in the history of art." -Gilles Néret
Some of Gustav's major works includePhilosophy, Medicine, Goldfish, Beethoven Frieze, The Sunflower, The Kiss, and Death and Life.
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