In the style of Gustav Klimt Austrian (1862 - 1918) young girl color etching Signed lower right and numbered 17/20 lower left. Biography from the Archives of AskArt: Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862, the son of an Austrian jeweler. From the age of fourteen to twenty he studied at the School of Plastic Art in Vienna. From the age of eighteen he, his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch undertook commissions for decorative works. In 1897 he became the first President of the Vienna Secession. Influenced first by Makart, he turned away from him after a trip to Vienna where he discovered Byzantine mosaics. In 1912, he withdrew from the Secession and became President of the Austrian National Union of Artists. In 1917, he was granted an honorary professorship at the Viennese Academy. Klimt was a burly, handsome, bearded man often photographed in his studio wearing a caftan. A mix of eroticism and death imagery runs through many of his canvases. In his later years, Klimt became a much sought-after portrait painter. Many of these portraits combined naturalistic studies of the power and sensuality of the model's face with the most implausble dress and ornamentation. Austria's parliament recently enacted a law providing for the return of Jewish-owned artworks plundered by the Nazis; among them are several well-known portraits. The families of the original owners have been engaged in long periods of litigation, hoping to receive restitution, or the actual return of the art-works which are currently hung in (among other places) Vienna's Austrian National Gallery. Emilie Floge, a dress shop owner whose portrait he painted, was his mistress for the last two decades of his life. When he was carried home with a stroke in 1918, he called out "Get Emilie here," and died in her presence. Plate; 7 1/4"H x 5 1/8"W. Sheet; 11 1/2" x 8 1/4".