'The Beethoven Frieze: The Hostile Powers' by Gustav Klimt (after).
Based on the artist's original 5-panel artwork created in Vienna, Austria, 1901-1902.
10.5 x 25 Inches
26.7 x 63.5 Centimeters
Reproduction Giclee print on canvas.
Unknown Edition.
*Note: Very good original condition.
ARTIST BIO
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau in Europe. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets 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.
He is best known for 'The Kiss' and 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I'. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
Early in his career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.
Since the 1990s, Gustav Klimt has been one of the artists whose paintings fetch top prices at auctions.