While Matsch depicted the prince head-on against a solid green background, Klimt painted him from the side against a floral backdrop. Flowers were a common motif in Klimt’s early work ...

Klimt likely encountered him there, capturing his likeness with uncharacteristic realism before his later gold-leafed stylizations emerged. However, floral motifs in the background hint at the ...

In particular, the use of symbolic floral motifs in the background establishes a stylistic principle that Klimt would develop consistently from this point onward.” Similar symbolic floral motifs ...

For Alois Wienerroither, it is a key painting in Klimt's oeuvre. "The floral background of the painting is already modern and is also reminiscent of the portrait of Sonja Knips, daughter of an officer ...

Wienerroither said the 1897 painting has all the hallmarks of Klimt’s early work, including emerging floral forms, which became a feature of his later paintings, such as “Portrait of Sonja ...

He links the work stylistically to Klimt’s 1897–98 portrait of Sonja Knips, which hangs at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and also shows its subject against an abstract background with floral ...

A painting by Ernst Klimt that was completed by his much more famous brother Gustav after Ernst’s sudden death is due to be offered at auction at Sotheby’s evening sale on 4 December in London.

The great Viennese artist busted taboos with his depictions of pregnant women. If you were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the company of, say, a teenage daughter or niece, you might pause ...

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter, was one of the most famous and respected members of the Vienna Secession movement. He had mastery in symbolism and art, and a majority of his paintings feature a ...