Gustav Klimt
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Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body,[1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.[2] Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.[3]
Early in his career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.
Since the 1990s, he has been one of the artists whose paintings fetch top prices at auctions.[4]
Biography
Early life
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in the Austrian Empire, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls.[5] His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver.[6] All three of their sons displayed artistic talent early on. Klimt's younger brothers were Ernst Klimt and Georg Klimt .
Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna
In 1888 Klimt received the Golden Order of Merit from Emperor
During this period, Klimt fathered at least fourteen children.[11]
Vienna Secession years
Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the
In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to create three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. Not completed until the turn of the century, his three paintings, Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence were criticized for their radical themes and material, and were called "pornographic".[14] Klimt had transformed traditional allegory and symbolism into a new language that was more overtly sexual and hence more disturbing to some.[14] The public outcry came from all quarters—political, aesthetic and religious. As a result, the paintings (seen in gallery below) were not displayed on the ceiling of the Great Hall.[15] This was to be the last public commission accepted by the artist. All three paintings were destroyed when retreating German forces burned Schloss Immendorf in May 1945,[16][17] together with another ten paintings, including Schubert at the Piano, Girlfriends (or Two Women Friends), Wally (portrait), The Music (II)".[18][19]
His Nuda Veritas (1899) defined his bid to further "shake up" the establishment.[20] The starkly naked red-headed woman holds the mirror of truth, while above her is a quotation by Friedrich Schiller in stylized lettering: "If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please only a few. To please many is bad."[21] In 1902, animated by resentment Klimt wanted to title the painting Gold Fish (in which a naked woman ostentatiously and maliciously shows her butt), "To my critics", but was dissuaded by friends.[18]
In 1902, Klimt finished the Beethoven Frieze for the Fourteenth Vienna Secessionist exhibition, which was intended to be a celebration of the composer and featured a monumental polychrome sculpture by Max Klinger. Intended for the exhibition only, the frieze was painted directly on the walls with light materials. After the exhibition the painting was preserved, although it was not displayed again until restored in 1986. The face on the Beethoven portrait resembled the composer and Vienna Court Opera director Gustav Mahler.[22]
In 1905, dissensions within the Secession increased, and when the artistic consultant of the Galerie Mietkhe Carl Moll was attacked by colleagues of the Secession for his work, a strong controversy arose which created a real internal split, led by Klimt. The following year, Klimt formed the group called "Kunstschau" (Art Show) or "Klimt group", which also included Moll and Otto Wagner, among other important Austrian artists.[23]
During this period Klimt did not confine himself to public commissions. Beginning in the late 1890s he took annual summer holidays with the Flöge family on the shores of Attersee and painted many of his landscapes there, such as Schloss by the Water. These landscapes constitute the only genre aside from figure painting that seriously interested Klimt. In recognition of his intensity, the locals called him Waldschrat ("forest demon").[24]
Klimt's Attersee paintings are of sufficient number and quality as to merit separate appreciation. Formally, the landscapes are characterized by the same refinement of design and emphatic patterning as the figural pieces. Deep space in the Attersee works is flattened so efficiently to a single plane that it is believed that Klimt painted them by using a telescope.[25]
Golden phase and critical success
From 1900 Gustav Klimt became famous above all as a "painter of women". He created about one large-format portrait of a woman per year, in which he applied the principles of Art Nouveau - flatness, decoration, gold leaf application. At the same time, he devoted himself to allegories and Old Testament heroines, which he transformed, however, into dangerous "
Klimt traveled in all Europe, mainly to present his works on occasion of international exhibitions, but trips to Venice and Ravenna, both famous for their beautiful mosaics, most likely inspired his gold technique and his Byzantine imagery. In 1904, he collaborated with other artists on the lavish Stoclet Palace, the home of a wealthy Belgian industrialist that was one of the grandest monuments of the Art Nouveau age. Klimt's contributions to the dining room, including both Fulfillment and Expectation, were some of his finest decorative works, and as he publicly stated, "probably the ultimate stage of my development of ornament."[27]
In 1905, Klimt painted The Three Ages of Woman, depicting the cycle of life. He created a painted portrait of Margarete Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein's sister, on the occasion of her marriage.[28] Then, between 1907 and 1909, Klimt painted five canvases of society women wrapped in fur. His apparent love of costume is expressed in the many photographs of Flöge modeling clothing he had designed.
As he worked and relaxed in his home, Klimt normally wore sandals and a long robe with no undergarments. His simple life was somewhat cloistered, devoted to his art, family, and little else except the Secessionist Movement from which he and many colleagues eventually resigned. He avoided café society and seldom socialized with other artists. Klimt's fame usually brought patrons to his door and he could afford to be highly selective. His painting method was very deliberate and painstaking at times and he required lengthy sittings by his subjects. Although very active sexually, he kept his affairs discreet and he avoided personal scandal.
The artist cultivated close relationships with some of his clients, who were primarily from the assimilated
Klimt wrote little about his vision or his methods. He wrote mostly postcards to Flöge and kept no diary. In a rare writing called "Commentary on a non-existent self-portrait", he states "I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women... There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night ... Whoever wants to know something about me ... ought to look carefully at my pictures."[30]
In 1901 Hermann Bahr wrote, in his Speech on Klimt: "Just as only a lover can reveal to a man what life means to him and develop its innermost significance, I feel the same about these paintings."[31]
Final years and death
In 1911 his painting
Folios
Gustav Klimt: Das Werk
The only folio set produced in Klimt's lifetime, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, was published initially by H. O. Miethke (of Galerie Miethke, Klimt's exclusive gallery in Vienna) from 1908 to 1914 in an edition of 300, supervised personally by the artist. The first thirty-five editions (I-XXXV) each included an original drawing by Klimt, and the next thirty-five editions (XXXVI–LXX) each with a facsimile signature on the title page.
Each of the fifty prints was categorized among five themes:
- Allegorical (which included multicolored prints of The Golden Knight, 1903 and The Virgin, c. 1912)
- Erotic-Symbolist (Water Serpents I and Water Serpents II, both c. 1907–08 and The Kiss, c. 1908)
- Landscapes (Farm Garden with Sunflowers, 1907)
- Mythical or Biblical (Pallas Athena, 1898; Judith and The Head of Holofernes, 1901; and Danaë, c. 1908)
- Portraits (Emilie Flöge, 1902)
The monochrome collotypes as well as the halftone works were printed with a variety of colored inks ranging from sepia to blue and green. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria was the first to purchase a folio set of Das Werk Gustav Klimts in 1908.
Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen
Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen ("Twenty-five Drawings") was released the year after Klimt's death. Many of the drawings in the collection were erotic in nature and just as polarizing as his painted works. Published in Vienna in 1919 by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, the edition of 500 features twenty-five monochrome and two-color collotype reproductions, nearly indistinguishable from the original works. While the set was released a year after Klimt's death, some art historians suspect he was involved with production planning because of the meticulous nature of the printing (Klimt had overseen the production of the plates for Das Werk Gustav Klimts, making sure each one was to his exact specifications, a level of quality carried through similarly in Fünfundzwanzig Handzeichnungen). The first ten editions also each contained an original Klimt drawing.[38]
Many of the works contained in this volume depict erotic scenes of nude women, some of whom are masturbating alone or are coupled in
Gustav Klimt An Aftermath
Composed in 1931 by editor Max Eisler and printed by the Austrian State Printing Office, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath was intended to complete the lifetime folio Das Werk Gustav Klimts. The folio contains thirty colored
Paintings
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Idylle (Idylls) 1884, Vienna Museum
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Der Blinde (The Blind Man) 1896, Leopold Museum
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Pallas Athena, 1898, Vienna Museum
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Stiller Weiher (Egelsee bei Golling, Salzburg) (Tranquil Pond) 1899, Leopold Museum
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Philosophy, c. 1899–1907. Destroyed 1945
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Medicine, c. 1899–1907. Destroyed 1945
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Jurisprudence, c. 1899–1907. Destroyed 1945
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Schubertat the Piano, 1899. Destroyed 1945
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The Beethoven Frieze: The Hostile Powers, 1902, Secession Building
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Portrait of Hermine Gallia, 1904, National Gallery
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Portrait of Fritza Riedler, 1906, Belvedere
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Danaë, 1907, Private Collection, Vienna
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Hope II, 1907–08, Museum of Modern Art
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Avenue in Schloss Kammer Park, 1912, Belvedere
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Mäda Gertrude Primavesi, 1912, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Eugenia Primavesi , 1913–14, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
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Girlfriends or Two Women Friends, 1916–17, Galerie Welz. Destroyed 1945
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Portrait of Friedericke Maria Beer , 1916, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Drawings
In 1963, the Albertina museum in Vienna began researching the drawings of Gustav Klimt. The research project Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen, has since been associated with intensive exhibition and publication activities.
Between 1980 and 1984 Alice Strobl published the three-volume catalogue raisonné, which records and describes all drawings by Gustav Klimt known at the time in chronological order. An additional supplementary volume was published in 1989. In the following year Strobl transferred her work to the art historian and curator Marian Bisanz-Prakken, who had assisted her since 1975 in the determination and classification of the works and who continues the research project to this day. Since 1990, Marian Bisanz-Prakken has redefined, documented, and scientifically processed around 400 further drawings.[41]
This makes the Albertina Vienna the only institution in the world that has been examining and scientifically classifying the artist's works for half a century. The research project now includes information on over 4,300 works by Gustav Klimt.
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Two Female Nudes Standing, c. 1900, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Girl Seated in a Chair, 1904, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Portrait of a Woman, c. 1910, National Gallery of Art
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Seated woman masturbating, 1913
Selected works
- Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
- Brussels
- Fable (1883)
- Idylle (1884)
- The Theatre in Taormina (1886–1888), Burgtheater, Vienna
- Auditorium in the Old Burgtheater, Vienna (1888)
- Portrait of Joseph Pembauer, the Pianist and Piano Teacher (1890)
- Ancient Greece II (Girl from Tanagra) (1890–91)
- Portrait of a Lady (Frau Heymann?) (1894)
- Music I (1895)
- Love (1895)
- Sculpture (1896)
- Tragedy (1897)
- Music II (1898)
- Pallas Athene(1898)
- Flowing water (1898)
- Portrait of Sonja Knips (1898)
- Fish Blood (1898)
- Schubertat the Piano (destroyed 1899)
- After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St Agatha) (1899)
- Nymphs (Silver Fish) (1899)
- Mermaids (1899)
- Philosophy (1899–1907)[42]
- Nuda Veritas (1899)
- Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899)
- Medicine(Hygieia) (1900–1907)
- Music (Lithograph) (1901)
- Judith I(1901)
- Buchenwald (Birkenwald) (1901)
- Gold Fish (To my critics) (1901–02)
- Insel im Attersee (1901–1902)
- Portrait of Gertha Felsovanyi (1902)
- Portrait of Emilie Flöge(1902)
- Beech Forest (1902)
- Beech Grove I (1902)
- Beethoven Frieze (1902)[43][44]
- Beech woods (1903)
- Hope (1903)
- Pear Tree (1903)
- Life is a struggle (1903)
- Jurisprudence (1903–1907)[45]
- Water Serpents I (Wasserschlangen I, 1904–1907)
- Water Serpents II (Wasserschlangen II, 1904–1907)
- The Three Ages of Woman (1905)
- Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905)
- Farm Garden (Flower Garden) (1905–06)
- The Stoclet Frieze (1905–1909)
- Portrait of Fritza Riedler (1906)
- Sunflower (1906–07)
- Farm Garden with Sunflowers (1907)
- Danaë(1907)
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)
- Poppy Field (1907)
- Hope II (1907–08)
- Schloss Kammer on the Attersee I (1908)
- The Kiss (1907–08)
- Lady with Hat and Feather Boa (1909)
- The Tree of Life (1909)
- Judith II (Salomé) (1909)
- Black Feather Hat (Lady with Feather Hat) (1910)
- Schloss Kammer on the Attersee III (1910)
- The Park (1910)
- Death and Life (1911)
- Cottage Garden with Crucifix (destroyed) (1911–12)
- Apple Tree (1912)
- Forester's House, Weissenbach on Lake Attersee (1912)
- Portrait of Mäda Gertrude Primavesi (1912)
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II(1912)
- The Maiden (Die Jungfrau) (1913)
- Semi-nude seated, reclining (1913)
- Semi-nude seated, with closed eyes (1913)
- Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi (1913–14)
- Lovers, drawn from the right (1914)
- Portrait of Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt (1914)
- Semi-nude lying, drawn from the right (1914–15)
- Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer (1916)
- Houses in Unterach on the Attersee (1916)
- Death and Life (1916)
- Garden Path with Chickens (destroyed)(1916)
- The Girl-Friends (destroyed) (1916–17)
- Woman seated with thighs apart, drawing (1916–17)
- The Dancer (1916–1918)
- Leda (destroyed) (1917)
- Portrait of a Lady, en face (1917–18)
- Adam and Eve (unfinished, 1917–18)
- Portrait of Johanna Staude (unfinished, 1917–18)
- The Bride (unfinished, 1917–18)
- Lady with a Fan, c. 1917–18, Klimt's last painting
Legacy
Posthumous auction history
Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In November 2003, Klimt's Landhaus am Attersee sold for
In 2006, the 1907 portrait,
On 7 August 2006,
Klimt's last painting, Lady with a Fan (Dame mit Fächer, 1918), is sold by Sotheby's in London on 27 June 2023 for UK£85.3M (US$108.4) to a Hong Kong collector, the highest-priced artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.[60]
Visual art
According to the writer Frank Whitford: "Klimt of course, is an important artist—he's a very popular artist—but in terms of the history of art, he's a very unimportant artist. Although he sums up so much in his work, about the society in which he found himself—in art historical terms his effect was negligible. So he's an artist really in a cul-de-sac."[61] Klimt's work had a strong influence on the paintings of Egon Schiele, with whom he would collaborate to found the Kunsthalle (Hall of Art) in 1917, to try to keep local artists from going abroad. Artists who reinterpreted Klimt's work include Slovak artist Rudolf Fila.[citation needed]
Cultural influence
Already during his lifetime Klimt influenced other artists, such as the Italian Liberty style artist Galileo Chini (1873–1956).[62] Klimt was exhibited at the 1910 Venice Biennale. Chini and Vittorio Zecchin (1878–1947) created a number of panels in 1914 for the Venice Hotel Terminus called "La Primavera" and "Mille e una notte".[63][64][65] These were later exhibited in the Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Art Museum.[66]
In 1972 the Vienna State Opera presented a new production of Salome, an opera by Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss, in a Klimt inspired stage setting and costumes by Jürgen Rose. This production, directed by Boleslaw Barlog and first conducted by Karl Böhm, became extremely popular and stayed in the repertoire for nearly fifty years. It was shown in 265 performances and went on tour to Florence, Washington and twice to Japan.[67][68]
In 2006 an Austrian art-house biographical film about his life,
Several of Klimt's most famous works from his golden period inspired the title sequence for the animated adaptation of the manga series, Elfen Lied, in which the art is recreated to fit with the series' own characters and is arranged as a montage with the song "Lilium". The opening to the anime Sound of the Sky also is largely inspired by Klimt's works, which was also directed by the same director as Elfen Lied. The design of the land of Centopia on the TV series Mia and Me is inspired by Klimt's works. The art of the video game Transistor also uses patterns and embellishments inspired by Klimt.[69]
Gustav Klimt and his work have been the subjects of many collector coins and medals, such as the 100 Euro Painting Gold Coin, issued on 5 November 2003, by the Austrian Mint. The obverse depicts Klimt in his studio with two unfinished paintings on easels.[70]
Tawny Chatmon, an American photographic artist known for her portraits of Black children overlaid with gold leaf and paint, has sought to place Black figures in glittering gold clothing inspired by Klimt's lavish portraits of white Viennese women.[71]
Elements of the portrait First Lady Michelle Obama, by Amy Sherald in 2018, have been noted by art critics to have been influenced by Klimt, in particular the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.[72] One commentator noted the similarity to fashion designed by Klimt's muse Emilie Louise Flöge.[73]
Commemoration of 150th anniversary of birth
The city of Vienna, Austria had many special exhibitions commemorating the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth in 2012.[74]
In 2012, the Austrian Mint began a five-coin gold series to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. The first 50 Euro gold coin was issued on 25 January 2012 and featured a portrait of Klimt on the obverse and a portion of his painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer.[78]
Gustav Klimt Foundation
In 2013, the Gustav Klimt Foundation was set up by Ursula Ucicky, widow of Klimt's illegitimate son
Nazi looted art: restitution and litigation
In 2000, a government committee recommended that Klimt's Lady with Hat and Feather Boa, in Belvedere Museum in Vienna, be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had owned it before the Nazi Anschluss.[80]
In 2009 the Lentos Art Museum in Linz, Austria restituted Klimt's Portrait of Ria Munk III (Frauenbildnis) to the heirs of Aranka Munk, a Jewish art collector in Vienna who was murdered in the Holocaust. The looted portrait was of her daughter.[83]
The paintings, including 1907's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, were sold by auction house Christie's for $325 million in 2006.[citation needed]
In 2021 the French minister of culture announced that the only Klimt in France's national collections was Nazi loot which should be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had been persecuted by Nazis.[84] Rosebushes Under the Trees, painted in 1905, had been owned by Nora Stiasi, who had been forced to sell it before being murdered by the Nazis.[85] It is currently hanging in France's Orsay Museum which purchased it from Swiss art dealer Peter Nathan in 1980.[86]
A similar painting, also painted by Klimt and known as Apple Trees II, which was also Nazi loot, was mistakenly returned to the wrong family by the Austrian authorities.[87]
Other Klimts that have been the object of ownership battles owing to a history of Nazi looting include the Beethoven Frieze,[88][89] Water Snakes II,[90] Blooming Meadow[91] and Portrait of Gertrude Lowe.[92]
In 2023, art collector
See also
- Bride of the Wind (biopic)
- Gustav Klimt's list of paintings
- Japonism
- Klimt Villa
- Lost artworks
- List of Austrian artists and architects
- List of claims for restitution for Nazi-looted art
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
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Two paintings by Gustav Klimt, sold during the Nazi era, should be returned to their rightful heir, an Austrian government committee has recommended. The committee was set up to investigate works of art seized from Austrian Jews by the Nazis. The artworks to be returned include Lady with Hat and Feather Boa, a showpiece of the Austrian State Belvedere Museum in Vienna
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Provenance. Aranka Munk, Vienna and Bads Aussee, by whom acquired from the artist. Wolfgang Gurlitt, Berlin (see note). Neue Galerie der Stadt (later, Lentos Kunstmuseum), Linz (inv. no. 149), by whom acquired from the above by 1956. Restituted to the heirs of Aranka Munk in June 2009.
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Further reading
- Kallir, Jane, Alfred Weidinger: Gustav Klimt. In Search of the Total Artwork. Prestel, New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4232-0
- Kränsel, Nina: Gustav Klimt. Prestel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3779-1
- Weidinger, Alfred. Klimt. Catalogue Raisonné, Prestel, New York, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3764-7
- Czernin, Hubertus: Die Fälschung: Der Fall Bloch-Bauer und das Werk Gustav Klimts. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-7076-0000-9
- ISBN 3-7913-3284-8.
- ISBN 3-8321-7258-0.
- Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in ISBN 0-394-74478-0
External links
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Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze | |
Gustav Klimt's The Kiss | |
Klimt's Death and Life | |
The Magic of Line: Gustav Klimt's Artistic Process on YouTube , Getty Museum |
- Adele's Wish Documentary film on the Bloch-Bauer court case (Republic of Austria v. Altmann)
- The Bloch-Bauer court case
- Klimt's Last Retrospective by Monica Strauss
- Klimt Film at IMDb
- "This Kiss to the Whole World" Klimt and the Vienna Secession (NYARC)
- Klimt, The Life and Work of Gustav Klimt
- Klimt vs. Klimt: Google's Pocket Galery, including three paintings colorized by AI, cf. A.I. Digitally Resurrects Trio of Lost Gustav Klimt Paintings
- KLIMT LANDSCAPES, Exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, February 15 – May 6, 2024.