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Gustav Klimt

A leading Symbolist painter in the Art Nouveau movement, Gustav Klimt was born in Austria in 1862. He was one of the prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement – an art movement that was closely linked to the Art Nouveau movement.

 

The Vienna Secession movement was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists, including painters, sculptors, and architects. The aim of the Vienna Secession was to move towards uniting and exchanging ideas with artists from outside Australia. They wanted to breath new life into decorative arts and were opposed to the strict artistic nationalism and traditional nature of the Vienna Academy of Arts.

 

Famous for depicting allegories and also often focusing on the female, his works were sometimes labelled as pornographic, yet they were so different to other art that was emerging out of Europe at the time that it garnered a lot of attention.