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Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in what was then Austria-Hungary. He studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts before collaborating with his brother, Ernst, and fellow student Franz von Matsch from 1879 onward. Over the next decade, they undertook various private portrait commissions and created interior murals and ceilings in notable public buildings, including the Burgtheater, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and the Great Hall at the University of Vienna.

Klimt worked in Vienna during the Belle Époque, a period when the city made a significant and enduring impact on the history of modern art. In 1897, he became a founding member and president of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists aiming to challenge the prevailing conservatism of the Viennese Künstlerhaus. Klimt, in particular, confronted what he perceived as the “hypocritical boundaries of respectability” imposed by Viennese society. According to art historian Susanna Partsch, he was regarded as “the enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene” and recognized as the painter of beautiful women. By 1900, he had become the preferred portrait artist for the wives of the largely Jewish Viennese bourgeoisie, a rising class of self-made industrialists who were “buying the innovative new art that state museums rejected,” as noted by journalist Anne-Marie O’Connor.

Globally, no other artist sells as many art prints, replicas, and souvenirs as Klimt.