Internationally known artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) grew up in Baumgarten, a town near Vienna. His father was an engraver of gold and silver items, a ...

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognized and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm walls from Beijing to Boston. Painted in Vienna ...

Gustav Klimt once said: "I am not very good at the spoken or the written word, particularly not if I am supposed to say something about myself or my work." It seems to understand this Austrian ...

Belvedere/Wien Museum The Kiss is one of Klimt's most famous paintings Unlike many of Klimt's other portraits, the Lady with a Fan was not a commissioned piece and was painted entirely in the ...

Internationally known artist Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) grew up in Baumgarten, a town near Vienna. His father was an engraver of gold and silver items, a ...

This story has been corrected to explain the location of the painting and the contents of the portrait itself. A painting by ...

Created between 1904 and 1907, this painting is a prime example of Klimt's fascination with eroticism and the female body, set within a dreamlike aquatic environment. The piece is characterised by ...

Image caption, The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907-08, oil on canvas, The Artchives / Alamy Stock Photo Gustav Klimt often used patterns in his paintings and murals. The Kiss (1907-8) is composed of ...

Lady with a Fan is among the very few portraits by Klimt, a leading figure of the Vienna Secession art movement ... leaf-encrusted canvases such as The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of Adele Bloch ...

(JTA) — The French government said that it will return a Gustav Klimt landscape painting that the Nazis stole in 1938 from Jews to the descendants of its rightful owners. The painting ...

Klimt is blockbuster material when his artwork goes on view in museums, and the art market loves him too—two of his paintings have cracked the $100 million mark at auction in just the last two ...

A long-lost painting by the Austrian modernist Gustav Klimt has been rediscovered after nearly a century. In a news release on Thursday, the im Kinsky auction house in Vienna said that ...