GUSTAV KLIMT (Baumgarten near Vienna 1862 - 1918 Vienna) sketch for Beethoven frieze, ca. 1901 pencil/paper, 45 ...

GUSTAV KLIMT (Baumgarten near Vienna 1862 - 1918 Vienna)
sketch for Beethoven frieze, ca. 1901
pencil/paper, 45,2 x 32 cm
inscribed Nachlass meines Bruders Gustav, Hermine Klimt (estate of my brother Gustav, Hermine Klimt)
we thank Dr. Bisanz-Prakken, who has inspected the art work and confirmed the inclusion in the catalogue raisonné of Gustav Klimt

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The Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was the most famous representative of Viennese Art Nouveau and founding president of the Vienna Secession. His brothers Ernst Klimt the Elder J. and Georg Klimt were also artists. He studied from 1876 to 1883 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Ferdinand Laufberger, Victor Berger, Ludwig Minnigerode, Karl Hrachowina and Michael Rieser. In the 1880s, together with his brother Ernst (registered with Lehmann: Gebrüder Klimt) and Franz Matsch, he formed a studio community run as an artist company. In 1891, Klimt became a member of the Vienna Visual Artists' Cooperative ( Künstlerhaus ). In 1897 he left the Künstlerhaus and was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession, of which he was its first president from 1897 to 1899. He designed the metal doors for the Secession building built by Josef Olbrich in 1897/1898. In 1898 the Secession held its first exhibition; Klimt provided images and illustrations for “Ver Sacrum”. In 1894, Klimt and Matsch were commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the newly built university with paintings. The proposal was rejected and there was a break between the two artists. Karl Kraus, who did not appreciate Klimt's style, defended the rejection of the philosophy painting in "Die Fackel”. In 1902, Klimt created the Beethoven Frieze for the 14th Secession exhibition (with Klinger's Beethoven statue). In 1903 the Secession showed 80 of Klimt's works. In 1905, Klimt and a group of artists, including Carl Moll, left the Secession because some fellow painters, including Josef Engelhart, pursued a style that was too “naturalistic” for him. Klimt's pictures were removed from the Secession. Klimt had a close friendship with Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, the founders of the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1904 Hoffmann was entrusted with designing a city palace for Adolphe Stoclet in Brussels. Klimt was commissioned by Fritz Wärndorfer, Wiener Werkstätte, to design the frieze (so-called Stoclet frieze) for the dining room of the palace. In 1905, Klimt exhibited in the 2nd annual exhibition of the German Artists' Association and received the Villa Romana Prize. In 1906, Klimt became an honorary member of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Klimt's “The Kiss” was created in 1907–1908. The picture was shown at the Vienna Art Show in 1908 and was commissioned by the k. k. Ministry of Culture and Education purchased. In 1912 he became president of the Association of Austrian Artists. He exhibited in Prague and Dresden in 1908, in Munich in 1909, and at the IX in 1910. Venice Biennale. In 1911 he exhibited in Rome; In 1912 again in Dresden, in 1913 in Budapest, Munich and Mannheim. In 1916 he could be seen with Schiele and Kokoschka in the federal exhibition in Berlin. From 1900 to 1916, Gustav Klimt spent most of his summer holidays on Lake Attersee in Upper Austria, especially in the villa of the court carpenter Friedrich Paulick. The majority of his landscape paintings were created here. Klimt maintained close relationships with his clients, who came primarily from the assimilated Jewish upper bourgeoisie in Vienna. He was close friends with Serena Lederer, the wife of August Lederer, with Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of the sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, and with Alma Mahler-Werfel. Emilie Flöge, for whose fashion salon Klimt made designs for reform dresses, is described as his partner. A Klimt monument designed by Anton Hanak in 1927/8 was not realized.

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