GUSTAV KLIMT
During the golden age
of Art Nouveau, the opulent works of this artist's "Golden Period",
reveal shapes and ornamentation blending together to form uniquely sensuous
compositions. Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918), co-founder of the "Vienna
Secession" school, brings together the different strands of the
international Art Nouveau movement in his magnificent paintings and is, in
fact, considered to be its most important exponent. Indeed, his best-known
painting "The Kiss" is universally recognized as the ultimate
"allegory of love".