Gustav Klimt Paintings involved avid depictions of women and children also made an appearance in a number of his paintings, including works like Death and Life. However, throughout the ages depictions of pregnant women have been rare and the works of Klimt are no exception. In Hope II, Klimt makes an exception by portraying a woman with her large pregnant belly. A skull is attached to the gown. Below her, three other women also bow their heads. Whether they are praying for a safe birth or actually morning cannot be said for sure.

The dress of the women and the surface they seem to rest on is extremely ornate, as is the style of Klimt. This is combined with byzantine style gold leaf painting around the main subjects to create a unified whole for the subject to rest in, and to keep our attention towards the central figures.

The focus of the painting on the bringing about of a new life, combined with the uncertain symbols and death and maybe mourning, reflects Klimt’s drive to depict the modern psychological subjects of the time. Klimt was an inhabitant of turn of the century Vienna, together with influences like Freud himself, and this springs through in works like Hope II.

Klimt’s Hope II can today be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Arts in New York City.

We continuously see more and more cases of art being reproduced today. Numerous websites offers reproductions of varying quality of the great masters, including Gustav Klimt reproductions. On the surface of things, reproducing Klimt could seem as among the more difficult tasks. His paintings offer sophisticated structures but not only that – he also used gold leaf in paintings like “The Kiss”. This made his original art expensive in his own day, and would not make it any less so today.

Fortunately, there have been some developments in the world of paint since then. Indeed, using gold paint in the place of gold leaf, painters are able to reproduce works of Klimt with uncanny resemblance. All of a certain, “Portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer I”, “The Kiss” and more can indeed be reproduced to adorn the home. While the material is different and some historical notes on Klimt’s process might not be included, unless one wants to pay for real gold to be used of course, it also offers an exceptional opportunity to bring the beauty of Gustav Klimt paintings right into your own home. Indeed, after looking at a few such paintings, we can honestly say that the results are not only impressive but uncanny in quality as well. It is also a definitive step upwards from posters and the like. Today, such reproductions can be made in high quality and we are very happy for it.

Around 1905, after having completed such works as Judith I and the university paintings, Gustav Klimt reproductions “The Three Ages of women”. It was his first allegory that did not rely on historical and mythological figures. It was also the beginning of the larger multi figure allegories that took up much of the artist’s time in his later years. The same three figures can be made out in both Medicine and Death and Life, other paintings by Klimt. After the death of his son Otto in 1902, Klimt became increasingly occupied with the subject of death and that can have helped lead to these paintings. As is customary for Klimt, notice that the focus is always on the female shape in these paintings.

Three Ages of Women depicts three women at different times of their lives. The youngest is the baby. She is in turn being held by the mother, still young but an adult. Last is the old woman, standing next to them and looking down. The three figures are set against a symbolic background so common in Klimt’s work. These symbols hold the energy of life and surrounds our main three figures. Outside this area, which holds all three figures, more uniform colors of gold and darkness prevail, a void that is close by but for now kept at bay. This structure also helps ensuring that our focus is kept on the three central figures. Three ages of Women can today be found at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, Italy.

To the right we see life. We see a number of young women lying on a flower bed. We have seen similar flower beds before, e.g. in The Kiss We see a newly created life, a baby, lying in their arms. We see a muscular man holding one of the women and we see an older woman also lying in the middle of the group. The depiction thus covers people, young and old, with a focus on the adults in their best age. There is an over representation of women in the painting which could refer to women as the source of all life. It could also reflect Klimt’s preference for depiction women, preferably somewhat undressed. All the subjects are somewhat covered by cloth bearing numerous symbols.

Death and Life can today be found in a private collection.

Today, Avenue in the Park of Kammer Castle can be seen at the Belvedere in Vienna.

Symbolist Gustav Klimt produced some of the most iconic images known today. The Kiss, Adele Bloch-Bauer I and more all came from his easel. These timeless masterpieces of sensuality and power are among the most expensive paintings in the world. They were also all part of what is often called Klimt’s “golden period”.

However, while Klimt certainly favored the femme fatale as his subject, not all his paintings simmered with direct sensuality. Klimt also did indulge in more traditional works. Among them we find paintings like Birch Wood (Buchenwald), painted by Klimt in 1901, which depicts a Birch forest in the fall. The leaves have fallen from most other trees and lie of the ground but the Birch are still green. see Gustav Klimt reproductions

While the motive differ, the technique of Klimt is still apparent in the painting. There are the upper trunks that almost seem as if made from different monotonously colored rectangles, the lower parts which are made of many small shaped in an almost foggy manner, not unlike the background in The Kiss, and there are the carefully painted leaves that litter the ground, almost as if stacked in clear detail. This clear delivery of layers if vintage Klimt, and the result is a very beautiful depiction of this fall forest.

Klimt was ever the fan of the classic world and its characters. From Danae to Hygeia to Pallas Athene herself, Klimt had a fascination with the casts of the classical myths. But while Gustav Klimt paintings are famous for his depictions of the femme fatale, from the mentioned Danae to Judith I, his depiction of Pallas Athene focuses more on her divinity that any sexual innuendo. Pallas Athene is strong, somewhat asexual; a man is a female’s body, as some would put it. This also relates to her twin portfolios of wisdom and war. These are hard to combine, and it takes a special androgynous power to cover both. However, she manages and through her being was the favorite deity of heroes and would-be heroes alike, as well as of poets and artist.

Klimt’s depiction of Pallas Athene brings across the power of the deity, and is also loyal to the myths iconography. Athene appears powerful and resolute, a much bigger threat than the medusa which can be spotted behind her in the painting. It brings about the questions of what you should fear more, the monster or the goddess. At least from the depiction at hand, there is no doubt who is the more powerful being.

Danae is another symbolist masterpiece by Gustav Klimt. The painting is based on the familiar greek myth of Danae, daughter of the King of Argos, who is visited by Zeus in her prison and impregnated, later giving birth to Perseus.

Klimt’s depiction of this myth is definitely very erotic. Zeus visits her in the form of a golden shower which can be seen in the painting flowing between her legs. From the face of Danae, it is also clear that she is aroused by this. As such, the direct symbolism of the painting alone gives it a highly erotic nature. While lying there, Danae is covered in a purple veil. This also serves to underscore her imperial lineage, purple being the imperial color.

Among Klimt’s major works, Danae is actually one of the smaller canvasses, measuring only 77x83 cm. However, as we all know from e.g. the Mona Lisa, the size of the painting does not define its importance. For those wanting to see more, Danae can today be found at the Galerie Würthle in Vienna, Austria.

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