Gustav Klimt
Born July 14, 1862 – Died Feb. 6, 1918) Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist Painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In 2006, the 1907 portrait, “Adele Bloch Bauer” was purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York for a reported US $135 million surpassing Picasso’s 1905 Boy with a Pipe (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever paid for a painting.
