Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter and illustrator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Secession movement, noted for his highly stylized and decorative paintings featuring gold leaf and geometric or naturalistic forms. Some of Klimt's most famous works include Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and The Kiss. His style evolved over time from a realistic approach to a more dreamlike and stylized one characterized by flat patterns and mosaic-like elements.

1. Gustav Klimt
Mrs. Hurd’s Artroom
Klimt is noted for his style,paintings,
murals, sketches, and other art objects

2. WRITE DOWN FACTS, THINGS OF
INTERESTS, PATTERNS, &
INSPIRATION. FOR AGRADE!
YOU SHOULD BE TAKING NOTES DURING PPT!!!

3. Your sketchbook note page
should look something like
this:
Facts from power point
Fill boxes in with
patterns & designs
Date of Birth/Death
Where did he live?
Why is he famous?
Facts & qualities about
art work.

4. Who is Gustav Klimt?
• Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which sold
for a record $135 million in 2006.
Neue Galerie, New York.
 Born July 14, 1862
Died Feb. 6, 1918,
 One of seven children, very
poor childhood
 Austrian painter and
illustrator
 Austria was one of the most
important centers for science
and culture in the 1890’s
 Klimt founded the school of
painting known as the Vienna
Secession
 He has been called the top
example of ART NOUVEAU.
In this composition Klimt incorporated many design elements, such as,
complementary colors orange (gold) and blue and repeated patterns of
shapes. What shapes do you see?

5. Definitions:
Vienna Succession
• Style that embodies
the high-keyed free
spirited, psychological,
and aesthetic
preoccupations of
turn-of-the-century
Vienna's dazzling
intellectual world
Art Nuevo
• Fine Arts. a style of
fine and applied art
current in the late 19th
and early 20th
centuries,
characterized chiefly
by curvilinear motifs
often derived from
natural forms.

6. Inspiration:
Klimt visited Ravenna, Italy, where he
saw early Christian mosaics made from
bits of stone and glass that inspired him
to paint the patterns in his artwork.
Death and Life

7. Two portraits of Emily Floge
Emily Floge at the age of 17, 1891.
Portrait of Emily Floge, 1902
He earlier work
is a highly
realistic, formal
portrait.
The second
portrait has a
stylized dream-
like quality with
a realistic face.
Two portraits of Emily Floge

8. Portrait of Eugenia
Primavesi
1913-1914
Klimt, GustavOil on canvas
140 x 85 cm
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
City, Japan
The women in many of
Klimt’s portraits were
the wives of wealthy
Viennese businessmen
and art collectors.

9. The
Maiden
1912 - 13

10. Mäda Primavesi
(1903–2000), 1912
Gustav Klimt
(Austrian, 1862–
1918)
Gift of André and Clara Mertens,
in memory of her mother, Jenny
Pulitzer Steiner, 1964 (64.148)
In this portrait, the flower in
Mada’s hair and the row of
flowers across her dress link
her with the floral patterns
in the rug and wallpaper.
Klimt’s style became freer
with fewer dense patterns
and hard edges in his later
years.

11. Medicine (Hygieia)
1900 – 07
Format 430 x 300 cm
Technique Oil on canvas
Location Burned in Schlob Immendorf,
Austria, 1945
The University of Vienna
rejected Klimt’s Medicine mural
because his mystical, snake
handling priestess did not fit the
University professors’ image of
the physician as a scientist and
healer.

12. The Kiss
Year 1907 – 08
Format180 x 180 cm
Technique Oil on
canvas
Location Vienna,
Osterreichische
Museum für
Angewandte Kunst

13. Hope, II. 1907-
08.
Gustav Klimt.
(Austrian,
1862-1918). Oil,
gold, and platinum
on canvas, 43 1/2 x
43 1/2" (110.5 x
110.5 cm). Jo Carole
and Ronald S.
Lauder, and Helen
Acheson Funds, and
Serge Sabarsky

14. __1. Simplified, stylized shapes
__2. Thick, flat, hard-edged
patterns
__3. Adele Block-Bauer
__4. Snake
__5. Repeat Patterns
__6. Transparent sketchy lines
__7. Egyptian Eyes
__8. Made Primavesi
__9. Hygieia
__10.Curving, spiral shapes
__11. Realistic three-dimensional
shapes
__12. Gustav Klimt
__13. Emily Floge
__14. Art Noveau
__15. Mosaiclike Patters
__16. Negative figure/positive
patterns
__17. Eugnia Primavesi
__18. Two-diminsional patterns
__19. Loose, free brushwork
__20. Gold patterns

15. Gustav Klimt - Assessment
WorkingwithPattern
1. What kind of city was Vienna during the 1890s?
2. What is Art Nouveau?
3. How does Klimt’s style differ in the two portraits of
Emily Floge?
4. Why did the university of Vienna reject Klimt’s Medicine
mural?
5. What did Klimt see in 1903 that would inspire the
patterns in his artwork?
Hub for Culture & Science
Expressive, curviliner, floral motiffs,
erotic
Photorealism vs. stylized-dream like with realistic face
because his mystical, snake handling priestess did not fit the
University professors’ image a scientist and healer.
Visit to Ravenna, Italy-where he saw early Christian mosaics

16. 7. Why might his paintings be considered a “painted
mosaic”?
10. Who were the women in many of Klimt’s portraits?
11. What elements did Klimt incorporate into paintings
such as Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer?
12. In Portrait of Mada Primavesi, what elements link
the subject with her surroundings?
complementary colors yellow (gold) and blue and repeated
patterns of shapes
the flower in Mada’s hair and the row of flowers across her dress
link her with the floral patterns in the rug and wallpaper.
Klimt used small quick brushstrokes to form a glittering pattern of
orange and yellow dots, dashes, and scribbles that resemble tiles in a
mosaic. Not to mention repetitive pattern/shapes and gold leaf

17. Your sketchbook practice
page should look something
like this:
Drawing
Notes/Tips &
Tricks
How many heads make up a figue?
Where do the hands go?
Length, shape, of features
Practice
Drawing

18. Figure Proportions: 7 ½ heads