Victor was a prosperous businessman who oversaw one of the city’s most significant industrial complexes. He was also a member of a wealthy Jewish family from Vienna who had long controlled and energized the city’s cultural scene. He was passionate about art and had the means to amass a magnificent collection. Victor kept Klimt’s artwork until his death in 1927. Gustav Klimt: Biografie. Lebenslauf und wichtige Werke des Wiener Jugendstilmalers"[G. Klimt: Biography. Résumé and important works of the Viennese Art Nouveau painter]. artinwords.de (in German). 30 December 2017 . Retrieved 24 September 2023.

Beginning in the early 1900s, Klimt started to travel with his family to the Attersee for extended summer visits. There, he devoted himself to painting landscapes and vistas. In 1913, he made the decision to depart from his usual routine and travel to Lake Garda with his mother and sisters to spend July through September there. It was formerly believed that he had remained in Tremosine at the Morandi Hotel, where a memorial monument is still in place. However, following the publication by Paolo Boccafoglio in recent years, it turns out that he really stayed at a rural villa in Malcesine. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. His father, Ernst Klimt the Elder, formerly from Bohemia, was a gold engraver. All three of their sons displayed artistic talent early on. Klimt's younger brothers were Ernst Klimt and Georg Klimt. A similar painting, also painted by Klimt and known as Apple Trees II, which was also Nazi loot, was mistakenly returned to the wrong family by the Austrian authorities. [85] Vienna, Ausstellungshaus Friedrichstrasse, Gustav Klimt Ausstellung, February-March 1943, no. 10 (illustrated). Insel im Attersee (Island in the Attersee) | Modern Evening Auction | 2023 | Sotheby's". web.archive.org. 25 May 2023 . Retrieved 13 November 2023.odd note of blue at the heart of this composition to act as a focal point within the color confusion. In recognition of his interest in natural scenes, the locals called him Waldschrat (“forest demon”). Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of applied arts and crafts, now the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he studied architectural painting from 1876 until 1883. He revered Vienna's foremost history painter of the time, Hans Makart. Klimt readily accepted the principles of a conservative training; his early work may be classified as academic. In 1877 his brother, Ernst, who, like his father, would become an engraver, also enrolled in the school. The two brothers and their friend, Franz Matsch, began working together and by 1880 they had received numerous commissions as a team that they called the "Company of Artists". They also helped their teacher in painting murals in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Klimt began his professional career painting interior murals and ceilings in large public buildings on the Ringstraße, including a successful series of "Allegories and Emblems". Spirito klimtiano: Galileo Chini, Vittorio Zecchin e la grande decorazione a Venezia – Mostra – Venezia – Ca' Pesaro – Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna – Arte.it".

Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer” by Gustav Klimt depicts Kammer Castle and its surroundings. This painting depicts the avenue leading to the castle, which is one of his famous Attersee paintings. Mythical or Biblical ( Pallas Athena, 1898; Judith and The Head of Holofernes, 1901; and Danaë, c. 1908) For artists, writers, thinkers and intellectuals, this period offered time and space for new inspiration and undisturbed work while immersed in the wonders of nature. Klimt spent the Sommerfrische with members of the Flöge family. His brother, Ernest, had been married to Helene Flöge. After Ernest’s death, Klimt remained close to their family, a guardian to their daughter, and companion of Helene’s sister, Emilie. Year after year the family spent this summer retreat together, holidaying from 1900 until 1912 in the picturesque villages that stood on the banks of the Attersee. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other Objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods. The focus of the painting was the pictorial structure itself.Unlike the Impressionists, Klimt was not interested in atmospheric variations. His ornamental approach covers and supplants the landscape leaving little open space on the canvas. A Tour of Gustav Klimt – Landscapes

In the past century, Malcesine, a little market town on the upper eastern shore of Lake Garda, has developed into a well-liked, albeit overrun, tourist destination. However, the population of Malcesine did not significantly expand in tandem with the increase in popularity. Klimt didn’t like to talk about his personal life or work. “I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting as a person. There is nothing special about me,” he once said. “I am a painter who paints day after day from morning until night.” But the details he did leave behind tell a different story. Klimt was an artist who passionately studied his craft and boldly rebelled against the establishment; who was shy but enchanting; who wore caftans when he painted; and who adored his pet cat, and—perhaps most of all—women. (Although Klimt never married, he fathered 14 children and was rumored to have numerous lovers.) Allegorical (which included multicolored prints of The Golden Knight, 1903 and The Virgin, c. 1912)