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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was a Austrian symbolist painter and among the most obvious members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt subject was the female body, and his works have been marked by a frank eroticism. Besides his own works, including allegories and portraitsthat he painted landscapes. One of the artists of the Vienna Secession, Japanese art and its own methods Klimt the very.

Early in his artistic career, he had been a prosperous painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. Since he developed a style, his job was the topic of controversy which surfaced as soon as the paintings he completed were treated as pornographic. He accepted no longer people commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of the "golden phase," a number of which include things like gold leaf. Klimt's work has been an important influence in his contemporary Egon Schiele.
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