I heard only his name, those days in Iran when I have been studying arts and inner architecture. We had to learn colours and how to work with them. I have known him and his masterworks truly here in Germany.

Gustav Klimt In Brief

He is one of the most advanced painters who have mastered geometry and the appropriate colour of the painting.

And, of course, the beauties of the curves!

Here is a well-done video by Great art explained, in which James Payne discusses ‘The Kiss’. (der Kuss)

This central late work by Gustav Klimt is one of his great allegories, in which he uses a bold composition to thematize the cycle of human life. The first sketches on paper were made in 1908, the execution in oil from 1910. On the occasion of the first presentation at the International Art Exhibition in Rome, in 1911, Klimt received the gold medal. For reasons that were not known in detail, he decided to fundamentally revise the picture in 1915. Klimt achieves the dissonant entanglement of life and death through the formal and motivic contrasting of a stream of naked human bodies: enveloped in colourful ornaments and flowers, mother and child, an old woman and a pair of lovers – on the right, and the solitary figure of death in dark clothes on the left side. The original probably has had a gold-coloured background but turns grey in the final version, death – wrapped in a blue ornamented cloak, and with a raised small red club, which appears dynamic and alive, designed in bright colours. It is also condensed with further figures and ornaments. (Here in original)

I have seen a austrian made movie from the young Kimt, though I can’t remember the name. Anyway, here is a trailer of a documentary on him.

I could continue with his painting here endlessly! He is a magician in his arts.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt

By Gustav Klimt – 1. The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.2. Neue Galerie New York, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=153485 (Paintings)

Open culture (Gustav Klimt)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/gustav-klimts-masterpieces-destroyed-during-world-war-ii-get-recreated-with-artificial-intelligence.html

https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/gustav-klimts-masterpieces-destroyed-during-world-war-ii-get-recreated-with-artificial-intelligence.html

https://www.vienna-unwrapped.com/gustav-klimt-artwork/