Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt in his painter's smock with a cat, photograph from 1912

“… they should look carefully at my paintings.”

    • Gustav Klimt – The Kiss – the original in the Belvedere, a couple in a golden cloak on a flowering meadow – oil and gold leaf on canvas Stock
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      Klimt’s golden couple at the edge of a flowering meadow, painted by hand in oil on canvas with the gold in gold paint. Eight square sizes or made to measure, with a photo before dispatch.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Tree of Life – the design: golden spirals of the tree between Expectation and Fulfilment – working drawings for the Stoclet Frieze, mixed media with gold
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      The whole Stoclet design – golden spirals, Expectation and Fulfilment – painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight wide sizes from 90 x 50 to 250 x 130 cm, with a photo before dispatch.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Mother and Child (detail) – the right-hand part of The Three Ages of Woman, a mother with closed eyes and her sleeping child among gold ornaments – oil on canvas
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      The right-hand part of Klimt’s The Three Ages of Woman of 1905, a young mother with her sleeping child among gold ornaments, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Seven square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Water Serpents II – the original, two women floating horizontally in golden ornament – oil on canvas
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      Two water beings float across a long canvas in golden ornament. Klimt’s Water Serpents II, painted by hand in oil, for the wall above a sofa or bed.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Hope II – the original at MoMA in New York, a pregnant woman in profile in a robe of gold circles – oil, gold and platinum on canvas
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      Klimt’s Vision, known today as Hope II: a pregnant woman in a golden robe, painted by hand in oil and gold paint. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – the original: Adele seated in a gold dress with eye motifs against a gold background – oil, silver and gold leaf on canvas Stock
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      Klimt’s Woman in Gold painted by hand in oil on canvas, with the gold in gold paint. Eight square sizes from 50 x 50 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure, with a photo before dispatch.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Fulfillment – the original, a pair of lovers embracing among the golden spirals of the tree of life – working drawing with gold for the Stoclet Frieze Stock
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      A man in a golden robe and a woman with closed eyes in a close embrace, wrapped in the tree of life. Klimt’s Fulfillment from the Stoclet Frieze, painted in oil.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Water Serpents I – the original, two women among golden seaweed in an upright band – watercolour and metals on parchment
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      A tall, narrow painting of two water beings among golden seaweed. Klimt’s Water Serpents I, painted by hand in oil after the original on parchment.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Tree of Life (Detail) – the tall detail: trunk with eye ornaments, gold spirals and the black bird – working drawing for the Stoclet Frieze, mixed media with gold Stock
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      The trunk, spirals and black bird of Klimt’s Tree of Life as a tall detail, painted by hand in oil with gold paint. Sizes from 40 x 75 to 100 x 190 cm, with a photo before dispatch.

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    • Gustav Klimt – The Virgin – the original in the National Gallery Prague, sleeping girls in a swirl of colourful fabrics – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s late, colourful The Virgin: a sleeping girl and waking girls in a swirl of patterned fabrics, painted by hand in oil. Eight sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Farm Garden with Sunflowers – the original in the Belvedere, three sunflowers in a carpet of bright flowers – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s square garden of three tall sunflowers and bright flowers, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Forest of Beech Trees – the original in the Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, white and brown beech trunks over orange leaves – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s square landscape of 1902, a wood of slim beeches above warm autumn leaves, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight sizes from 50 x 50 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Hygieia – the original, the goddess of health in red and gold with a golden snake around her arm – detail of the destroyed ceiling painting Medicine
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      The goddess of health in red and gold, a golden snake around her arm. Klimt’s Hygieia from the destroyed Medicine, painted by hand in oil after the surviving colour reproduction.

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    • Gustav Klimt – The Kiss (detail) – a crop of the original in the Belvedere, the lovers’ faces in golden cloaks – oil and gold leaf on canvas Stock
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      Klimt’s lovers seen close up, the faces and golden cloaks painted by hand in oil on canvas with gold paint. Eight sizes from 40 x 40 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure, with a photo before dispatch.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Farm Garden with Crucifix – the original, a wooden cross with a small roof in a flowering garden – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s summer landscape with a wayside cross in a blooming garden, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Apple Tree I – the original, an apple tree with red apples above a flowering meadow – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s square landscape of red apples and a flowering meadow, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of a Lady II – the original, a young woman in a pale dress among large flowers, lower part unfinished – oil on canvas
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      A young woman in a pale dress surrounded by large pink, red and violet flowers, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight tall sizes from 40 x 80 to 120 x 240 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Avenue in the Park of Kammer Castle – the original, an avenue of gnarled trees leading to the yellow castle facade – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s avenue of gnarled trees leading to Kammer Castle, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Schloss Kammer on the Attersee II – the original, the castle from the land side with a dark roof, white gables, a tall tree and a meadow with young trees – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s land-side view of Schloss Kammer, its great dark roof and white gables above a bright meadow, painted by hand in oil on canvas in four square sizes from 60 x 60 to 90 x 90 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Joseph Pembaur – the original, a pianist with round glasses before a red ground with a golden lyre, in a painted gold-ochre frame – oil on canvas
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      A pianist and piano teacher in a frame of lyre and stars: Klimt’s 1890 portrait, painted by hand in oil on canvas together with its gold-ochre frame of lyre, column, heads and dolphin.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Head Study of a Girl from Haná – the original, a young woman in a large white headscarf over a yellow-ochre cap, glancing sideways – oil on wood
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      A calm face in a white headscarf, the eyes turned to the side: an early head study by the young Klimt, enlarged and painted by hand in oil on canvas. Seven sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Sitting Nude Man Turned to the Left – the original, a nude young man on two wooden crates, turned to the left, head bowed – oil on canvas
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      A young model on two wooden crates, head bowed, in warm studio light: an academic nude the student Klimt dated himself in 1883, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Four sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Male Nude – the original, a bearded nude model with his right knee on wooden crates and his right arm raised before a grey-blue wall – oil on canvas
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      A bearded model kneels on wooden crates with one arm raised: Klimt’s academic nude study of 1883, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Seven sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Pine Forest I – the original, tall red-brown trunks across a square forest with a mossy floor and white flowers – oil on canvas
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      Red-brown trunks, a violet haze and a mossy floor with white flowers: Klimt’s darker pine forest of 1901, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Roses under the Trees – the original, the crown of a fruit tree above two bushes of pink and white roses on a pale green meadow – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s square garden of one fruit tree and two rose bushes, painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Forest Floor – the original, woodland ground on a slope with earth, moss and leaves in a band of warm light – oil on canvas
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      Dark earth, moss and fallen leaves in a band of warm light: an early landscape study by the young Klimt, enlarged and painted by hand in oil on canvas. Seven sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Garden Path with Chickens – colour reproduction of the lost original, a pale path between walls of hollyhocks with two brown chickens – oil on canvas
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      A pale path between walls of pink and red hollyhocks, with two brown chickens, painted by hand in oil on canvas after the reproduction of Klimt’s lost 1916 canvas.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Litzlberg on Lake Attersee – the original, a forested hillside with a meadow and a red-roofed village by the lake – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s forested Attersee hillside with a lakeside village, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Schloss Kammer on the Attersee III – the original, the yellow castle facade behind round green trees, with the pale lake below – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s close view of the yellow facade of Schloss Kammer above the Attersee, painted by hand in oil on canvas, in eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Schloss Kammer on the Attersee I – the original, a cream-yellow castle among trees, a grey boathouse and the green lake with long reflections – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s castle by the water, seen across the Attersee and mirrored in the green lake, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein – the original, a young bride in a long white dress before a pale grey wall with a band of squares and gold-brown blocks – oil on canvas
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      A life-size wedding portrait from 1905 by Klimt: a young woman in a long white dress, painted by hand in oil on canvas in five tall sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Will-o’-the-Wisp – the original, pale floating women with red and golden hair in a swirl of violet and blue with sparks of light – oil on board
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      Klimt’s mysterious ghost lights: pale women and glowing sparks in a swirl of violet and blue, painted by hand in oil on canvas.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Island in Lake Attersee – the original, a shimmering turquoise lake surface with a dark wooded island at the top right – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s shimmering Attersee with a dark wooded island, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Fruit Trees – the original, a row of slim fruit trees with green crowns in front of a sunlit yellow field – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s cool green orchard in front of a sunlit yellow field, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Four square sizes from 60 x 60 to 90 x 90 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – The Swamp – the original, a still dark pond with reflections of light and trees, tall reeds and a strip of green meadow – oil on canvas
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      A still, dark pond with reeds and soft reflections, one of Klimt’s early square landscapes, painted by hand in oil on canvas in four square sizes or to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Young Birches – the original, three white birches in a flowering summer meadow below a dark band of trees with a white farmhouse – oil on canvas
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      Three white birches in a flowering summer meadow, one of Klimt’s early square landscapes, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – On Lake Attersee – the original, the turquoise and silver-grey surface of the lake with a dark wooded island at the top right – oil on canvas
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      Klimt filled almost the whole canvas with the rippling water of the Attersee. Our hand-painted oil version comes in eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Auditorium of the Old Burgtheater – the original in the Wien Museum, the hall seen from the stage, three tiers of boxes, a crystal chandelier and a full audience – gouache on paper
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      Klimt’s view from the stage of the old Vienna Burgtheater, with almost 200 portraits in the audience, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Six sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Fable – the original in the Wien Museum, a nude young woman with a roll of paper in a dark forest, a sleeping lion, two storks and a fox – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s early allegory of the fable, a nude young woman with a sleeping lion, storks and a fox, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Five sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Mother with Two Children – the original in the Belvedere, Vienna, three pale sleeping faces above a dark blanket – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s quiet family portrait of 1909–1910, a mother and two sleeping children wrapped in one dark blanket, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Church in Cassone – the original, a hillside village on Lake Garda with a church, bell tower and dark cypresses above blue-green water – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s sunny Lake Garda village with its church, cypresses and blue-green water, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Mäda Primavesi – the original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a girl in white with her hands on her hips among flowers and birds – oil on canvas
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      A confident girl in a white dress, hands on her hips, in a garden of flowers and birds, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Five upright sizes from 50 x 65 to 120 x 160 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Fritza Riedler – the original in the Upper Belvedere, Vienna, a seated woman in lilac-grey in an eye-patterned armchair – oil on canvas
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      A seated lady in a lilac-grey dress, framed by eye-patterned upholstery and a mosaic headdress, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Seven upright sizes from 50 x 60 to 120 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Pine Forest II – the original in a private collection, dense dark pine trunks with tiny points of light – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s meditative landscape of 1901, a row of dark pine trunks with tiny points of light, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Five sizes from 60 x 60 to 100 x 100 cm.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Pear Tree – the original in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard, a huge treetop in green, blue and violet dabs above a row of trunks and a green meadow – oil and casein on canvas
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      Klimt’s square landscape of a great pear tree in green, blue and violet, a gift to Emilie Flöge, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Fräulein Lieser – the original in a private collection, a young woman in a turquoise-green dress and a flowered cape on an orange-red ground – oil on canvas
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      Klimt’s late portrait of a young woman of the Lieser family, in a cape of bright flowers on orange-red, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Four upright sizes or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Helene Klimt – a little girl in profile with dark brown hair and a white dress on a pale cream ground – oil on cardboard
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      Klimt’s little niece in profile, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Sizes from 40 x 60 cm, the size of the original, up to 80 x 120 cm or made to measure.

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    • Gustav Klimt – Apple Tree II – one large apple tree with a dark crown full of yellow-green and orange apples under a grey-violet sky – oil on canvas
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      A late Klimt landscape: one large apple tree with a dark crown full of yellow-green and orange apples, painted by hand in oil on canvas. Eight square sizes from 60 x 60 to 150 x 150 cm or made to measure.

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    Gustav Klimt in his painter's smock with a cat, photograph from 1912

    “I am a painter who paints day after day, from morning until evening.”

    Gustav Klimt – hand-painted paintings in oil on canvas

    At SvetSlik.si you can order 94 Gustav Klimt paintings as hand-painted oil reproductions on canvas, painted by our own painters. Every painting comes in several sizes – 164 formats across the gallery, from 20 x 50 cm to 250 x 225 cm – or in a custom size you give us, and prices start at 155 €. Each canvas is painted to order, delivery takes 15 to 45 days, and before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished painting for your approval. On the works of his Golden period, the gold is applied by hand in gold paint.

    Klimt’s periods – and what you will find in our gallery

    From academic decoration to gold and then to strong colour: choose a period first and the painting second.

    The early, academic years (1880s–1890s)

    With his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, the young Klimt painted decorations for theatres and palaces, among them the ceilings of the staircases of the Burgtheater in Vienna (1886–1888). For Martin Gerlach’s pattern book Allegories and Emblems he painted Idyll (1884) and Love (1895), and Music I (1895), painted in oil with gold bronze, was an early step towards his gold.

    The Vienna Secession and the Beethoven Frieze

    In 1897 Klimt co-founded the Vienna Secession and became its first president. Pallas Athena (1898) was shown at the second Secession exhibition, Hygieia comes from his University painting Medicine, and for the 14th Secession exhibition in 1902 he painted the Beethoven Frieze, which can still be seen in the basement of the Secession building. In our gallery you will find it as Beethoven Frieze I (detail).

    The Golden period (about 1903–1909)

    The son of a gold engraver, Klimt saw the Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna in 1903 and began to paint with gold. This is the period of The Kiss (1907–1909, Belvedere, Vienna), Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907, Neue Galerie, New York), Danae (1907), The Three Ages of Woman (1905, Rome) and Tree of Life from the Stoclet Frieze. Judith I (1901) already shines with gold, and so does the later Judith II (Salome) (1909, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice). On our copies these gold areas are painted by hand in gold paint.

    Landscapes

    Klimt painted his landscapes on square canvases during his summer stays, mostly at Lake Attersee in Upper Austria, and in 1913 at Lake Garda. From these summers come Farm Garden with Sunflowers, Poppy Field (1907, Belvedere), Forest of Beech Trees, The Park (MoMA, New York) and Malcesine on Lake Garda, whose original has been lost since 1945. The gallery also has Flower Garden, Apple Tree II and Blooming Meadow.

    Late portraits and allegories

    After 1910 the gold disappears and strong colour takes its place: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912), The Virgin (1913, National Gallery Prague), Death and Life (1910/11, reworked 1915/16, Leopold Museum, Vienna) and The Dancer (1916–1917), whose lower part remained unfinished. Portrait of a Lady (Ricci Oddi) was stolen in Piacenza in 1997 and found again in 2019. Among the last works is also Baby (Cradle), which remained unfinished.

    The most famous Klimt paintings at SvetSlik.si

    The painting our customers look for most is The Kiss; many also choose The Kiss (detail), a close-up of the two faces. Next come Mother and Child (detail), a detail of The Three Ages of Woman, and Tree of Life from the Stoclet Frieze, together with its counterpart Fulfillment.

    Also among the most viewed are Death and Life, Judith I, Judith II (Salome), Water Serpents II, Sunflower, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Danae, The Bride, which Klimt left unfinished in 1917–1918, and Hope II.

    Which Klimt suits which room?

    Above a sofa or a bed, the square landscapes work especially well – their originals measure about 110 x 110 cm, and a square brings calm to a long wall. Choose a painting about two thirds as wide as the furniture below it; for a three-seater sofa that usually means 120 to 160 cm. Tall, narrow formats such as Judith II (Salome) or The Dancer fit the narrow wall between two doors or windows.

    The Kiss is the classic for a bedroom and a favourite gift for a wedding or an anniversary. Hang the painting so that its centre sits about 150 cm above the floor; above a sofa, leave 20 to 30 cm between the back of the sofa and the lower edge of the canvas.

    Sizes, prices, custom size, stretcher and frame

    Each painting has its own range of sizes, matched to the proportions of the original, and the product page shows the price of every size. Across the gallery there are 164 formats, from 20 x 50 cm to 250 x 225 cm, and prices start at 155 €. If your wall needs a different measurement, send us the width and height: we paint to your own size. Every canvas comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang without a frame, and a frame is available on request.

    For the frame, use our 3D application: it shows our frame profiles on the painting you choose, so you can compare gold, silver, black, white and natural wood – the application is for choosing the frame only. If you would like to see how the painting will look on your own wall, that is our separate room placement service. For a gift, a wall art voucher lets the recipient choose the painting and the size.

    How we hand-paint a Klimt

    Every painting is painted by hand in oil on canvas, layer by layer, following a high-resolution photograph of the original. On Golden-period works the painter applies the gold by hand in gold paint, ornament by ornament, so that it catches the light much as Klimt’s gold does. If something in the final photograph is not right, we correct it before dispatch.

    On the pages of The Kiss, Tree of Life and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I you will find a video of copies we have painted. We ship across the EU, to the United Kingdom and to Ireland, with the canvas wrapped in protective film and packed in a rigid box.

    Gustav Klimt in brief

    Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Baumgarten near Vienna, the son of a gold engraver, and studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule). In 1897 he co-founded the Vienna Secession and became its first president. His lifelong companion was the fashion designer Emilie Flöge. He died in Vienna in February 1918. Read more in Gustav Klimt – ten interesting facts.

    Frequently asked questions

    Which are Klimt’s most famous paintings?

    The most famous is The Kiss (1907–1909) in the Belvedere in Vienna, followed by Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Tree of Life, Judith I and Death and Life. All of them are available in our gallery as hand-painted oil paintings.

    What does Klimt’s The Kiss mean?

    It shows a couple embracing at the edge of a flowering meadow, wrapped in one golden cloak. His robe is patterned with black and white rectangles, hers with round, colourful flowers, so the two opposites merge into one form. It is read as an image of love and union, which is why it is so often given at weddings.

    Why did Klimt use gold?

    His father was a gold engraver, and in 1903 Klimt saw the Byzantine gold mosaics of Ravenna. Gold made his figures look precious and timeless, like icons. His Golden period lasted roughly from 1903 to 1909.

    Where can you see Klimt’s original paintings?

    Most of them hang in Vienna: The Kiss and Judith I in the Belvedere, Death and Life in the Leopold Museum. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is in the Neue Galerie in New York. In Italy you can see Judith II in Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, The Three Ages of Woman in the GNAM in Rome and a Portrait of a Lady in the Ricci Oddi gallery in Piacenza.

    Can you buy an original Klimt, and what does a copy cost?

    Original Klimt paintings sell for tens of millions: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was resold in 2016 for 150 million dollars, and Flower Garden fetched 47.9 million pounds at Sotheby’s in 2017. A hand-painted copy in oil on canvas from SvetSlik.si starts at 155 €, depending on the size you choose. It is a real painting, not a print.

    Is the gold on your Klimt paintings real gold?

    No – on our copies the gold is gold paint applied by hand, not gold leaf. The originals, such as The Kiss, were painted with real gold, silver and platinum leaf. Hand-applied gold paint lights up nicely when the light falls on it.

    Which size should I choose?

    Measure the furniture below the wall and choose a painting about two thirds of its width: above a three-seater sofa that is usually 120 to 160 cm, above a desk or in a hallway 50 to 70 cm. Square landscapes look good above a bed, tall formats on narrow walls. Every product page lists the available sizes with their prices, and if none fits, we paint your own measurements.

    How long does delivery take, and can I order a custom size?

    Each painting is painted to order, so delivery takes 15 to 45 days, depending on the size. A custom size is possible for every painting: send us the width and height and we paint the canvas to your measurements. Before dispatch you receive a photograph of the finished painting.