App Detail » Paintings: Gustav Klimt

Published by: A Fuchs

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $0.99
Current Version: 2.5
Released: March 23, 2011

What's New

- Optimized for iOS 6.1.3
- Updated User Interface
- New Splash Page

App Description

In this FULL VERSION, you will find over 100 paintings by the great master Gustav Klimt.

This App is available for iPod, iPhone and iPad. Optimized for iOS6, retina display and iPhone 5. It allows you to share images via email, Twitter and Facebook, or save them to your camera roll (with no watermarks). Share the artist bio via email. Select your favorites. View the images one by one, or enjoy a slideshow.

Enjoy this fantastic visual gallery, share the images with your friends, and learn about the artist life.

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects.

Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his work is often distinguished by elegant gold or coloured decoration, spirals and swirls. This can be seen in Judith I (1901), and in The Kiss (1907–1908), and especially in Danaë (1907). One of the most common themes Klimt used was that of the dominant woman, the femme fatale.
Art historians note an eclectic range of influences contributing to Klimt's distinct style, including Egyptian, Minoan, Classical Greek, and Byzantine inspirations. Klimt was also inspired by the engravings of Albrecht Dürer, late medieval European painting, and Japanese Rimpa school. His mature works are characterized by a rejection of earlier naturalistic styles, such as The Glasgow School, from which he was heavily influenced, and make use of symbols or symbolic elements to convey psychological ideas and emphasize the "freedom" of art from traditional culture.
He was keenly interested in exploring Freudian issues surrounding psychoanalysis in his works. Freudian issues gave his work a dark intricacy that would be highly influential for future artists.