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Gustav Klimt Art Auction. Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist artist, was born in 1862. Best known for his paintings and murals, Gustav Klimt has many famous works including The Kiss, Adele Block-Bauer I, and Beethoven Frieze. Gustav Klimt entered the Vienna School of Art at the age of 14. His brother, Ernst Klimt, enrolled the year after Gustav. They often worked together early in Klimt’s career and together, along with friend Franz Marsch, formed an artistic team they called The Company of Artists. Klimt’s professional career began as a painter of wall and ceiling murals in large, public buildings. In 1897 Gustav Klimt became one of the founding members and first president of the Vienna Secession, which began the Secession movement that would later be known as Art Nouveau. The Secession gallery now displays many of Klimt’s pieces. Though Gustav Klimt was commissioned for a number of projects, including three paintings for the Great Hall at the University of Vienna, his works were often considered “pornographic” in nature and sometimes publicly criticized. Later in his career Gustav Klimt began using gold leaf techniques and employed the use of mosaic inspiration. Both The Kiss and Adele Block-Bauer I, painted in the early 1900s, feature similar techniques, easily distinguished by the dominance of gold tones. Like many artists, Gustav Klimt achieved his greatest success posthumously. “Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. ” | Gustav Klimt biography and resources. | Market value of Gustav Klimt works. | Posters and art prints of Klimt.
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