Silk on wool
USA/Europe, c. 1990
After Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) – Austrian painter and graphic artist
Dimensions: 150 x 149 cm
Very good condition
An artist rug after the painting ‘Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen’ (1906)
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Condition:

The tapestry is in very good condition. The tapestry is 150 cm long and 149 cm wide.



Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

Gustav Klimt was supposed to become gold engraver like his father, but thanks to a scholarship he was allowed to study at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. In 1891, he became a member of the Wiener Künstlerhaus. After he left, he became the co-founder and temporarily president of the Vienna Secession, for whose journal he provided numerous designs and illustrations. Klimt was a close friend of Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, the founders of the Wiener Werkstätte. Thus he was commissioned to design the famous frieze in the dining room of the Stoclet Palais in Brussels. Between 1907 and 1908, Klimt created his most famous painting ‘The Kiss’. Klimt was one of the most controversial, but also most popular artists of the turn of the century. Although his works were initially dismissed as decorative painting, he is now considered one of the quintessential forerunners of modernism. His works are part of major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMA, the Tate Gallery, the Belvedere and the Secession in Vienna. In 2006, the portrait ‘Adele Bloch-Bauer I’ was purchased by the founder of the Neue Galerie in Manhattan for the record price of 135 million dollars, hitherto the highest price ever paid for a painting. (tm)

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