Gustav Klimt An Austrian Symbolist Painter – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – Sold for $135 million
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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 — February 6, 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; his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

Klimt became one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897 and of the group’s periodical, Ver Sacrum (“Sacred Spring”). He remained with the Secession until 1908. The goals of the group were to provide exhibitions for unconventional young artists, to bring the works of the best foreign artists to Vienna, and to publish its own magazine to showcase the work of members. The group declared no manifesto and did not set out to encourage any particular style—Naturalists, Realists, and Symbolists all coexisted. The government supported their efforts and gave them a lease on public land to erect an exhibition hall. The group’s symbol was Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of just causes, wisdom, and the arts—of whom Klimt painted his radical version in 1898.

In 1911 his painting Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome. In 1915 Anna, his mother, died. Klimt died three years later in Vienna on February 6, 1918, having suffered a stroke and pneumonia due to the influenza epidemic of that year. He was buried at the Hietzinger Cemetery in Hietzing, Vienna. Numerous paintings by him were left unfinished.

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 $29,128,000, but that sale was soon eclipsed by prices paid for other Klimts.

In 2006, the 1907 portrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, was purchased for the Neue Galerie New York by Ronald Lauder reportedly for US $135 million, surpassing Picasso’s 1905 Boy With a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever paid for a painting.

Gustav Klimt’s Paintings

Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
Palais Stoclet mosaic in 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)
Schubert at the Piano (destroyed 1899)
After the Rain (Garden with Chickens in St Agatha) (1899)
Nymphs (Silver Fish) (1899)
Mermaids (1899)
Philosophy (1899–1907)[27]
Nuda Veritas (1899)
Portrait of Serena Lederer (1899)
Medicine (Hygieia) (1900–07)
Music (Lithograph) (1901)
Judith I (1901)
Buchenwald (Birkenwald) (1901)
Gold Fish (To my critics) (1901–02)
Portrait of Gertha Felsovanyi (1902)
Portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902)
Beech Forest (1902)
Beech Forest I (1902)
Beethoven Frieze (1902)[28][29]
Beech woods (1903)
Hope (1903)
Pear Tree (1903)
Life is a struggle (1903)
Jurisprudence (1903–07)[30]
Water Serpents I (1904–07)
Water Serpents II (1904–07)
The Three Ages of Woman (1905)
Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1905)
Farm Garden (Flower Garden) (1905–06)
Farm Garden with Sunflowers (1905–06)
The Stoclet Frieze (1905–09)
Portrait of Fritsa Reidler (1906)
Sunflower (1906–07)
Hope II (1907–08)
Danaë (1907)
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)
Poppy Field (1907)
Schloss Kammer (de) 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 Virgins (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 (1916–18)
Leda (destroyed) (1917)