A great Austrian symbolist, Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century--a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.
Gustav Klimt's paintings mirror the complex relationship of the artist to society women of turn-of-the-century Vienna. As femme fatale or femme fragile, they were his life companions, lovers, muses, or models.
A biography-art narrative, the story of Gustav Klimt's art focuses on his iridescent artworks that feature primarily his study of women in turn of the 20th century Vienna.
