Gustav Klimt:
Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed
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Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed
Gustav Klimt:
Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | certificate | reproduction, Giclée print on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 78 x 77,5 cm (h/w)

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Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed
Gustav Klimt: Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed

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Picture "Apple Tree I" (1912), framed

Gustav Klimt's style is unmistakable. In addition to the paintings of his "golden phase", the Viennese master especially shaped the transition to modern painting with his impressive landscape paintings. The square, atmospheric landscape paintings were a source of tranquillity and meditation for Gustav Klimt. He produced them in nature and without preliminary sketches.

Since always, the apple tree has been considered a mythological symbol of life and love, fertility and the feminine. Klimt's "Apple Tree I" radiates a solemn monumentality.
Original: Oil on canvas, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the Fine Art Giclée process and stretched on a stretcher frame. Framed in handmade, white-golden solid wood frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Size 78 x 77.5 cm (h/w). ars mundi Exclusive Edition.

Portrait of the artist Gustav Klimt

About Gustav Klimt

1862-1918, Austrian painter, a famous representative of Viennese Art Nouveau

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was already a renowned artist, influencing the Art Nouveau style of Vienna's famous Ringstrasse with his murals and co-founding the Vienna Secession, when he created his "Golden Style". Inspired by the Byzantine mosaics, he inserted ornamental colour surfaces into a golden bed just like encased gemstones. With his visual art, Klimt describes the path of life of human beings who, negatively influenced by instincts, find their redemption in the kiss. The depictions of the body convey a subtle eroticism, although their figures dissolve into ornamental and geometric colour surfaces. He utilized this method not only for his depictions of couples but also for his portraits of rich women and landscape paintings. This two-dimensional style is today the epitome of Klimt's intensely coloured art, which, however, only characterises his work from 1905 onwards.

Klimt was not only adept at gold and opulence but was also a brilliant draughtsman. He produced numerous drawings in the course of his life. Mostly as preliminary studies for larger works.

As a son of an engraver, Klimt learned his craft at Vienna‘s School of Applied Arts. While still seeking to find his own artistic style, his early work is based on historicism especially influenced by Hans Makart, the artist Prince of the Habsburg monarchy in the late 19th century. Together with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, the three young painters formed an artistic community and received numerous commissions to design new buildings on Vienna's Ringstrasse. The staircases of Vienna's Burgtheater or the Museum of Fine Arts bear witness to the historicist style of this collaborative team.

In the late 1890s, like so many young and open-minded artists of the fin de siècle, Gustav Klimt abandoned the academic tradition. In 1897, together with other artists, he founded the "Wiener Secession", which he presided over as president until his resignation in 1905. To this day, the Secession's exhibition building remains a place and temple for new young art.

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