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.

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 ...

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 ...

If you were at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the company of, say, a teenage daughter or niece, you might pause before this Gustav Klimt painting, “Hope, II,” and sigh.

‘Gustav Klimt” conjures up images of sleek, high-maintenance women or stylized, embracing lovers engulfed by complicated metallic patterns and walls of flowers. At the Neue Galerie, New York ...

The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction Tuesday, when it sold for a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London ...

"The Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I" is a famous painting by Gustav Klimt. The renowned piece of art was lost from the family's possession when the Nazis invaded Austria and took decades to return.

Gustav Klimt was not a perfect painter, and T.J. Clark has reason to detect a certain artificiality in his oeuvre, an over-reliance on surreal, ersatz eroticism and extravagant decorativism, a ...

Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion ... Two mothers visiting from Maryland said they learned about the exhibition from their adolescent children, who sat near them. “It’s mesmerizing,” one of them ...

Climate protesters in Austria have thrown a black substance over Gustav Klimt’s painting “Death and Life,” in the latest act targeting renowned works of art across the world.

“Gustav Klimt: Gold In Motion” features 30-foot-high images of the late legend mapped across the H-shaped skyscraper’s historic architecture, from its stained glass skylights to its coved ...