About Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter, was the founder the Nouveau Art movement in Austria called the Sezession. He served as the movement's first president in 1897 up to 1905 and his individual and quality style became its trademark. He was initially famous for the decorations he made for a number of theatres and for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna where he finished the work started by Makart. He transferred to his own studio and shifted to easel painting at the age of thirty. Five years later, he founded the Sezession but withdrew eight years after, dismayed by the rising inclination of other artists towards naturalism. Klimt's artworks were controversial at his time because of nudity and understated sexuality. The Autrian Emperor Franz Joseph II disliked Klimt's work of art and the Sezessionist, extremely. He ordered his drivers not to pass any buildings depicting Sezessionist Art.

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