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Artist: Gustav Klimt
Nationality: Austrian
Born: 14th July 1862 nr Vienna
Died: 11th January 1918
Bio:The son of Engraver, Gustav Klimt studied at the School of Applied Art and Imperial Museum for Art in Vienna. In 1879 Gustav and his brother Ernst took part in Laufberger's work for the Museum of Art History. In 1883 he opened a Studio with his brother and friend Franz Matsch. In 1892 both his father and his brother Ernst died.
Gustav Klimt's work expresses the atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society; a society devoted to aesthetic awareness and pleasure. The pleasure which Klimt and his contemporaries found was constantly overshadowed by death, which features an important role in his works.
Renowned for his use of gold paint and leaf, it is likely that no other Modernist artist has ever enjoyed such lasting and broad popularity.
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