Gustav Klimt

The artist Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten near Vienna in 1862. Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement; creating a new and highly individual style with the use of intense colours, golden backgrounds, ornamental layouts. His major works include Judith and The Kiss; which is arguably the world's most popular print reproduction. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism with phallic shapes used to conceal the more erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are based. He was a fruity one.