Gustav Klimt

The Profile

Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a leading figure of the Vienna Secession, known for his decorative style and his 'golden phase'.

Klimt is publicly known as an Austrian painter (1862–1918), co-founder of the Vienna Secession, celebrated for works such as The Kiss and Adele Bloch-Bauer I, and for his ornamental, gilded 'golden phase' and explorations of eroticism and allegory.

The review praises Klimt's Danae as a masterpiece, emphasizing its sensual, dreamlike portrayal of the myth. It highlights the oval composition, the depiction of unconscious eroticism, and the golden cascade as the male presence. The piece is framed as a deliberate challenge to bourgeois propriety.