03/21/2025 March 21, 2025. Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting?

Gustav Klimt: a pioneer of the Austrian avant-garde The Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of Austria's most important painters in the late 19th century. He is considered a ...

Pine Forest II (1901) Gustav Klimt, Pine Forest II (1901). One of Klimt’s least showy compositions, the tiny glints of light it reveals are nothing short of magical.

A painting by Ernst Klimt that was completed by his much more famous brother Gustav after Ernst’s sudden death is due to be offered at auction at Sotheby’s evening sale on 4 December in London.

Gustav Klimt was born in 1862, the second of five children in a creatively oriented family. His mother, Anna Klimt (née Finster), had unfulfilled dreams of a life as a musical performer.

"The Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I" is a famous painting by Gustav Klimt. The renowned piece of art was lost from the family's possession when the Nazis invaded Austria and took decades to return.

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter, was one of the most famous and respected members of the Vienna Secession movement. He had mastery in symbolism and art, and a majority of his paintings feature a ...

Ahead of the US$32 million sale of a Gustav Klimt portrait unseen for 100 years, a claimant to its ownership, reportedly a potential heir to the legal successor of its original owner, came forward.

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Miss Lieser", a painting of a young woman left unfinished when the Austrian artist died, sold at auction on Wednesday for $32 million despite open questions about its ...

One of Gustav Klimt's final paintings from 1917, "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser," has sold at an auction house in Vienna for $32 million by an unidentified buyer.

Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II sold at a New York auction in 2006 for $87.9m, and his landscape Birch Forest sold at Christie’s in New York in 2022 for $104.6m.