The sensual pleasures of Klimt’s luxurious paintings did not spring into being ex nihilo. This fascinating book traces his influences as a series of homages to past masters and contemporary artists of ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Christopher Moore, who brings Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, an undead woman, and a host of other unlikely characters together in his latest book, "Anima Rising.

The art of Gustav Klimt makes me feel as though I am face to face with God, if God is a charming, faintly trashy type who leers more than he enlightens and seems oddly desperate for my approval.

A long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has finally reappeared in Austria decades after it disappeared around the 1940s. Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist artist, primarily known for his paintings ...

“To speak the truth is to shine and burn,” Gustav Klimt inscribed on an early version of his provocative Nuda Veritas. Across time and distance—from Vienna’s Belle Époque to our own ...

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.

It is one of the last works the artist painted before his death in 1918. LONDON -- One of the last paintings by the renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has miraculously been found after ...