In 1898 the Secession held its first exhibition. Their main motivation was that the artists rejected the conservatism and traditional concept of art – oriented towards historicism – that prevailed at the Künstlerhaus. Klimt also designed the metal doors for the Secession building erected by Josef Olbrich in 1897/1898. On May 24, 1897, he resigned from the Künstlerhaus and was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession, of which he was the first president from 1897 to 1899. In 1892 his father died in July, and in December his younger brother Ernst. In 1891 he became a member of the Cooperative of Fine Artists of Vienna ( Künstlerhaus). Art Exhibition of the Association of Fine Artists of Austria. In 1885, it created the ceiling paintings in the Hermes Villa in Vienna, in the period from 1886 to 1888 the ceiling frescoes in the two staircases of the new building of the Burgtheater, and in 1891/1892 the spandrel and intercolumniate paintings in the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna as well as the murals of the Peleș Castle in Romania. In 1888/1889 Klimt traveled to Krakow, Trieste, Venice and Munich. Among other things, the company created curtain and ceiling paintings for the theaters in Reichenberg, Karlsbad, and in 1885 in Fiume. In the 1880s, together with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, he formed a studio partnership known as the Künstler-Compagnie. During this time he still lived (with interruptions) with his parents. At first Klimt was supposed to learn his father’s profession, but he received a scholarship, so that from 1876-1883 he attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry with Ferdinand Laufberger, Victor Berger, and Ludwig Minnigerode.
He was born as the second of seven children in the Viennese suburb.
Gustav Klimt was the son of Ernst Klimt the Elder (1834 – July 1892), a gold engraver from Bohemia, and Anna Rosalia Klimt née Finster (1836 – February 1915). Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. He noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects d’art. Klimt is considered the most famous representative of Viennese Art Nouveau and founding president of the Vienna Secession. On July 14, 1862, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt was born.
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