Gustav Klimt:
Porcelain sculpture "Tree of Life"
Gustav Klimt:
Porcelain sculpture "Tree of Life"

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limited, 199 copies | numbered | signature | certificate | porcelain + wood | gold plating | total size 53 x 30 x 12 cm (h/w/d) | weight 3.4 kg

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Porcelain sculpture "Tree of Life"
Gustav Klimt: Porcelain sculpture "Tree of Life"

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Porcelain sculpture "Tree of Life"

In 1904, Gustav Klimt was commissioned to create a mural frieze in the Brussels city palace of the industrialist Adolphe Stoclet - the Tree of Life is part of it.

A real highlight is this sculpture "The Tree of Life", hand-decorated from fine hard porcelain and decorated with real gold plating. Limited edition 199 copies, numbered and signed, with certificate. Size 53 x 30 x 12 cm (h/w/d) incl. wooden pedestal. Weight 3.4 kg.

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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