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Gustav Klimt

1862 - 1918

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Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Klimt is the 25th most popular painter (down from 23rd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Austria (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Painter.

Gustav Klimt is most famous for his paintings of women, which are often characterized by a sense of eroticism.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gustav Klimt ranks 25 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Giotto, Donatello, and Titian. After him are El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, and Hieronymus Bosch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Gustav Klimt ranks 1. After him are Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Gerhart Hauptmann, Allvar Gullstrand, William Henry Bragg, Hilma af Klint, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, and Arthur Schnitzler. Among people deceased in 1918, Gustav Klimt ranks 2. Before him is Nicholas II of Russia. After him are Claude Debussy, Abdul Hamid II, Alexandra Feodorovna, Gavrilo Princip, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Egon Schiele, Guillaume Apollinaire, Mehmed V, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, and Georg Cantor.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Gustav Klimt ranks 10 out of 1,424. Before him are Joseph Haydn (1732), Franz Schubert (1797), Maria Theresa (1717), Marie Antoinette (1755), Franz Liszt (1811), and Johann Strauss II (1825). After him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Stefan Zweig (1881), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527), and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459).

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Among PAINTERS In Austria

Among painters born in Austria, Gustav Klimt ranks 1. After him are Egon Schiele (1890), Oskar Kokoschka (1886), Angela Hitler (1883), Koloman Moser (1868), Hans Makart (1840), Peter Fendi (1796), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Friedrich von Amerling (1803), Moritz von Schwind (1804), and Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805).

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