Gustav Klimt was born in 1862, the second of five children in a creatively oriented family. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had unfulfilled dreams of a life as a musical performer.

“Klimt was the original hippie,” says curator Janis Staggs. “Quite the hedonist.” Gustav Klimt (left) produced this chalk-on-paper sketch of Adele Bloch-Bauer seated in an armchair in 1903.

The third of seven Klimt children, Ernst Klimt was born in 1864 in Vienna, two years before his brother Gustav. The brothers studied together at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, which Ernst ...

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, ... the second of seven children — three boys and four girls. All three sons displayed artistic talent early on. His father, ...

Art work by Gustav Klimt / Courtesy Neue Galerie New York He was born in 1862, in the village of Baumgarten. Gold was in his blood—his father was a skilled engraver of it—but the family was ...

Raúl Ruiz's ambitious but tedious "Klimt" is likely to disappoint those drawn to it if they attended the recent and much-heralded LACMA exhibit "Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings From the Collection ...