1. Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 Born in Vienna, in 1862, into a lower middle-class family the late 19th Century one of the founders and leaders of the Vienna Secession art movement As an exceptional student, he was given the chance to attend classes at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts commissioned to paint several large decorative works by the age of twenty.

2. Sappho 1888-90

3. Sonja Knips 1898

4. Portrait of a Girl 1902

5. Art Noveau. Focusing on experimentation and the study of contemporary styles of art, as well as historical styles that were overlooked within the establishment, such as Japanese, Chinese, Ancient Egyptian and Mycenaean art. Although educated as classicist, his use of bright, vivid colors and the widespread use of symbolic objects in his paintings would set the trends for the entire period, and would have a profound influence on Viennese Art Noveau and the Secession movement ( founded in 1897), that was against the classicist establishment, which it found to be oppressive. In 1903, he visited Italy twice and was profoundly influenced by the golden mosaics of Ravenna. This marked the beginning of his "golden style." By 1910, Klimt had moved past his Golden Style, and in 1912, he changed the background from gold to blue.

9. Music 1895

10. Pallas Athena 1898

11. Schubert at the Piano 1899 ( Destroyed by fire at Schloss Immerdorf in 1945 )

12. Judith and Holopherne 1901

13. Goldfish 1901-1902

14. Portrait of Emilie Flöge 1902

15. Hope I 1903

16. Farmhouse with Birch Trees 1903

17. Country Garden with Sunflowers 1905-1906

18. Portrait of Margarethe Stoneborough-Wittgenstein 1905

19. The Three Ages of Woman 1905

21. Hope II 1907-1908

22. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907

23. Hygeia (Detail of Medicine) 1900-1907

24. The Kiss 1907-1908

25. Death and Life 1908-1916

26. Judith II (Salome) 1909

27. Adele Bloch-Bauer II 1912

28. Fredericke Maria Beer 1916

29. Lady with Fan 1917-1918

30. Baby 1917 Baby 1917-1918

31. Portrait of Mäda Primavesi 1921

32. Klimt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1918. He continued painting until the very end and many of his final works remained unfinished. CM