Gustav Klimt

Life and work[edit] Early life and education[edit] Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria-Hungary, the second of seven children—three boys and four girls. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had an unrealized ambition to be a musical performer. Klimt lived in poverty while attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he studied architectural painting until 1883. In 1888 Klimt received the Golden Order of Merit from Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria for his contributions to murals painted in the Burgtheater in Vienna. During this period Klimt fathered at least fourteen children.[5] Vienna secession years[edit] In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to create three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. All three paintings were destroyed by retreating SS forces in May 1945.[9][10] Klimt's Attersee paintings are of sufficient number and quality as to merit separate appreciation. Klimt's Folios[edit]

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (/ˈlʊ.siː.ən ˈfrɔɪd/; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011)[1] was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.[2] His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model.[3] Early life and family[edit] Born in Berlin, Freud was the son of a German Jewish mother, Lucie (née Brasch), and an Austrian Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect.[4][5] He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the late broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud. He moved with his family to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Early career[edit] Mature style[edit] Later career[edit] Personal life[edit] Selected solo exhibitions[edit] Notes[edit]