The creation of this canvas is associated with the name of the magnate Adolf Stokwe, who in 1904 decided to build a huge family. At that time there was a fashion to […]

In 1902, an exhibition-memorial was held in the Viennese Secession, which was dedicated to the memory of the great Ludwig van Beethoven. Gustav Klimt saw genius in the musician, and in his […]

Judith is a feminine character; she is a widow who saved her entire Jewish race from enemies. Assyrians besieged her hometown, the widow had to change clothes and go to the camp […]

The painting “Danae” is one of the most popular mythological works of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. According to ancient myth, beautiful Danae was sharpened by Father Ariksius in a copper tower. So […]

Gustav Klimt painted the picture “Girlfriends” in 1916-1917. Unfortunately, the original of the painting did not reach us – it burned down in 1945. The author painted his work based on the […]

The Golden Adel is the most significant canvas of Gustav. Portrait of the Austrian Mona Lisa deserved scandalous fame. In 2006 it was sold for a huge amount – more than one […]

The artist, who created the canvas with the image of Judith, 8 years later embodied another archetype of a fatal beauty not in the image of a biblical character, but in the […]

Gustav Klimt more than once addressed women’s issues. He was worried about the inner world of a woman, as evidenced by the predecessor of the painting “Three Ages of a Woman” – […]

Klimt is a famous Austrian modernist artist, who preferred paintings of the female body, often nude and erotic, in his paintings. If a man had to get into the picture, usually his […]

Klimt’s paintings are deeply symbolic – they are difficult to read at one glance, they need to ponder, estimate, put forward hypotheses and reject them. And the most exciting thing about them […]