Gustav Klimt

Name of a famous Austrian painter, graphic and book illustrator Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is inextricably linked with the style of Art Nouveau, and his paintings - his most vivid manifestation. Klimt was one of the most interesting and popular representatives of the world of art. He never sought to demonstrate to the public its exclusivity. He worked quietly, quietly, doing only what he thought was necessary, and, meanwhile, the world was not a lot of artists who have been so favored by the public, showered with orders and have not experienced financial difficulties. This is one of the mysteries of Klimt. Klimt was born in the family of the engraver and goldsmith near Vienna. My father could not achieve prosperity through their craft. Family out of poverty will be released only after Gustav, graduated from the School of Decorative Arts, together with his brother Ernst and Franz Match create another company to fulfill the artistic and decorative works. Within a few years, until there was firm, Klimt won fame as the best Austrian painter-decorator. However, the artist was not pleased with himself, his style. All was still ahead. The first lines of his unique style appeared for the first time in the paintings of great staircase of the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum, established in the 1890-1891. In 1897, Klimt was headed Secession - association of artists, created in opposition to the official art. In 1900 he began work proposed by the University of Vienna, and presented one of the painted ceiling - "Philosophy". It was then that the scandal broke. On the ceiling of this, and then on the following - "Medicine" and "Law" - the artist has broken all the laws of color and composition, combining incongruous. On its panels, man is a slave to his nature, obsessed with pain, sex and death. Such Klimt and shocked and fascinated. But the scandal ended with the artist, having to borrow money, returned to the University of advance work and left himself. There were so many orders that it allowed him to quickly repay the debt in the future not to think about money.