Mark Glazebrook

Seduced by Klimt

Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design & Modern Life in Vienna 1900 (Tate Liverpool until 31 August)

issue 19 July 2008

Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil as it was called in Germany, came rather late to Austria, where it was sometimes called Sezessionstil. Gustav Klimt was a leading light in the breakaway Austrian Secession movement founded in 1897. Only a fool would deny that he was an exceptionally gifted artist.

He absorbed in turn 19th-century Realism, Symbolism and Impressionism.

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