Gustav Klimt made gold modern. At the turn of the 20th century, the Viennese artist captivated public attention with his sinuous depictions of women (and occasionally men) which he adorned with ...

Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss is a deceptively simple portrait of lust and love. But beyond that glittery gold leaf, the work is full of fascinating facts. In 1907, perhaps reeling from the poor ...

Despite the fact that the Automat looks and sounds like something from the Communist-era Soviet Union, Lomography has replaced the camera’s Cold War aesthetic in favor of a dead painter from a ...

Born on July 14, 1862, Klimt worked with gold leaf in some of his most well-known pieces, such as "The Kiss" and the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I." Today would mark the artist's 150th birthday.

Klimt was not the only artist to use gold leaf. Below is the Vienna Secession, designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, an Austrian architect active from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.

Gustav Klimt’s Poignant, Prophetic ‘Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl ... (1908, completed 1909) or “Judith” (1901)—his pivotal, sensual works embellished in gold leaf.

Klimt is famous for his use of gold leaf in paintings such as The Kiss (1908), Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901).

Gustav Klimt’s Poignant, Prophetic ‘Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl ... (1908, completed 1909) or “Judith” (1901)—his pivotal, sensual works embellished in gold leaf.

Art work by Gustav Klimt / Courtesy Neue Galerie New York He was born in 1862, in the village of Baumgarten. Gold was in his blood—his father was a skilled engraver of it—but the family was ...

Klimt’s personal vision culminated in a “golden phase” of portraits and allegories, rendered in lifelike scale and adorned with mesmerizing facets of gold leaf and pigment.

The Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is best-known for the immortalising opulence of such milestones of modern art as his gold-leaf-encrusted canvases The Kiss, 1907-8, and Portrait of ...

The last portrait completed by Gustav Klimt became the most expensive artwork ever to sell at a European auction Tuesday, when it sold for a staggering £85.3 million ($108.4 million) in London. ...