Approaching Thunderstorm (The Large Poplar II) (1903 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Approaching Thunderstorm (The Large Poplar II) does not offer the golden shimmer or sunlit gardens for which he is most famous.
Region Europe
At Lake Attersee (1900 CE)
In the summer of 1900 Gustav Klimt pointed his gaze at Lake Attersee and painted almost nothing else. The resulting picture is known as At Lake Attersee or Am Attersee.
Stoclet Frieze (1905-1911 CE)
The nine working drawings laid out in a row are Klimt’s full-scale cartoons for the Stoclet Frieze — the designs from which the mosaics in Brussels were made.
The Kiss (1907–1908 CE)
The Kiss is one of those rare paintings that seems to exist outside ordinary time. Two lovers kneel at the edge of a flowering meadow, their bodies almost dissolving into a single shimmering form of gold..
Hope II (1907–1908 CE)
Hope II shows a pregnant woman standing in a square field of gold-flecked darkness. Her head is bowed and her eyes are closed, as if she is praying for the child she carries.
Danaë (1907 CE)
In Danaë, Gustav Klimt does not show a princess locked in a tower so much as a woman folded into herself. She curls in a near-fetal pose, auburn hair spilling across her face..
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907 CE)
Completed in 1907, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I shows Adele Bloch-Bauer at about twenty-six: dark hair swept up, flushed cheeks, red lips, a diamond choker at the throat, hands clasped in an odd, almost protective gesture.
Water Serpents II (1904-1907 CE)
Water Serpents II (also called Freundinnen, or The Girlfriends) is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, begun in 1904 and finished in 1906–1907.
Water Serpents I (1904-1907 CE)
Water Serpents I (Wasserschlangen I), also called Girlfriends or Freundinnen I, is one of Gustav Klimt’s most intimate works from his Golden Phase.
The Three Ages of Woman (1905 CE)
The painting does not tell a story with a beginning and an end. It shows three stages of one female life at the same moment, as if time had been folded into a single image.
Hope I (1903 CE)
Hope I is Gustav Klimt’s tall, confrontational vision of pregnancy: a life-sized nude woman who looks the viewer in the eye while death, disease, and a monstrous sea-creature press in around her.
Life is a Struggle (Golden Rider) (1903 CE)
The knight holds his lance steady, the visor is down, flowers bloom at the horse’s feet — and a snake slips in from the left.
Goldfish (1901-1902 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Goldfish (German: Goldfische) is a tall, narrow painting that immediately draws the eye with its dreamlike mix of sensuality and defiance.
Judith I (1901 CE)
Gustav Klimt’s Judith I (also known as Judith and the Head of Holofernes) is one of the most magnetic and unsettling images in modern art.
Pallas Athene (1898 CE)
In 1898 Gustav Klimt painted a square canvas that still radiates quiet power. At its centre stands Pallas Athene, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic war.