Prime progenitor of the Vienna Secession, Gustav Klimt is the subject of a new exhibition in Rome's Museo di Roma, one star of which is his "Portrait of a Lady," famously stolen in 1997 and ...

In this way, Klimt’s embrace of gold put his works in conversation with the design and decorative artists of his time and reflected the very modern sensibilities of Vienna Secession artists.

Vienna's Secession, the name of Gustav Klimt's breakaway art movement and the building where his Beethoven Frieze was created in 1902, is a focal point of the anniversary year.

A century after his death, Klimt’s legacy lives on more emphatically than ever. ... founded the Vienna Secession Movement in 1897. An image of Gustav Klimt in 1902. ...

Klimt: In the Light of Hoffmann and the Secession, Museo Correr, Venice. Though this show doesn’t quite live up to its title, the Viennese painter’s extraordinary portraits of women shine out.

Another is his 1901 Beethoven Frieze (on view at the Secession Building in Vienna), in which Klimt pictured comparably entwined male and female figures. This earlier four-painting series provides ...

Additionally, Klimt is said to have been inspired by Japanese art such as ukiyo-e and Rinpa, as seen in the Japonism exhibition held at the Vienna Secession in 1900.