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Gustav Klimt

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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism; he is best known for The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.

Facts
Birth Year
1862 1
Death Year
1918 1
Active From Year
1883 2
Classification
Gender
Male 1
Connections

In Movement

Symbolism, Movements
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Vienna Secession, Movements
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Practices

Painting, Art Forms
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Works Created

Beethoven Frieze, Works
Source Beethoven Frieze (Wikipedia)
Danaë (Klimt), Works
Source Danaë (Klimt) (Wikipedia)
Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, Works
Source Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings - Wikipedia
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Works
The Kiss (Klimt), Works
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Nationality

Austria

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Originated In

Vienna

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2. Biography.com (A and E Television Networks): Biography.com: Gustav Klimt
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Klimt’s horizons began to broaden, however, when his budding talent earned him various small commissions while he was still in school, and after his graduation in 1883, he opened a studio with his younger brother Ernst and their mutual friend Franz Masch.
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Wikidata: Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt (Wikipedia)
  • Gustav Klimt, Wikipedia summary lead
    an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement
  • Lead section
    Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 - 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement.
  • Gender reference
    His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe.
  • Wikipedia sections
    At the age of fourteen, he was accepted into 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.
  • In Movement: Symbolism, Gustav Klimt, Wikipedia summary lead, movement
    was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement.
  • In Movement: Vienna Secession, Gustav Klimt, Wikipedia summary lead, in-movement
    Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 - 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement.
  • In Category: Artists, Gustav Klimt, Wikipedia summary
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Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings - Wikipedia
Works Created: Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, lead paragraph
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The Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, also known as the Faculty Paintings, were a series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between 1900 and 1907. In 1894, Klimt
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The Kiss (Klimt) (Wikipedia)
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Beethoven Frieze (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Beethoven Frieze, Infobox: artist
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Gustav Klimt
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Danaë (Klimt) (Wikipedia)
Works Created: Danaë (Klimt), Lead sentence
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Danaë is an oil painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, created in 1907.
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