121 - Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten 1862 - 1918 Vienna)

Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten 1862 - 1918 Vienna) Standing nude, 1915/16 bister/paper 57 x 37,3 cm depicted in Strobl, catalogue raisonné Gustav Klimt, 1984, no. 2756 – study for the painting "Freundinnen II" (1916/17) The sitter is likely Klimt's friend Consuela Camilla Huber. They had three children together, born between 1912 and 1915 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 30000 - 60000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 30000 Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter and one of the most significant figures of the Vienna Secession and Viennese Modernism. As a co-founder and the first president of the Vienna Secession, he championed a modern, internationally oriented approach to art. From 1876 to 1883, Klimt attended the School of Arts and Crafts at the Imperial-Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry. Together with his brother Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch, he founded the "Künstler-Compagnie" (Artists' Company), which executed decorative schemes for prominent Viennese buildings, including the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Starting in the 1890s, Klimt developed a distinctive, Symbolist visual language. The controversial "Faculty Paintings" for the University of Vienna led to a definitive break with academic commissioned art. In 1897, he founded the Vienna Secession; its journal, *Ver Sacrum*, became a key mouthpiece for the new art. Klimt became particularly renowned for his portraits of women, allegories, and landscapes. His "Golden Phase" combines ornamental flatness and gold backgrounds with a sensual, Symbolist visual world. His major works include The Kiss (1907/08), Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), and the Beethoven Frieze (1902). Klimt died in Vienna on February 6, 1918. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.