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Klara Klimt, c. 1880

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Oil on canvas

Artists

  • Gustav Klimt

    (Baumgarten near Vienna/Vienna 1862–1918 Vienna)

Currently on display at OG4
Klara Klimt, born in 1860, was the oldest of Gustav Klimt’s (1862–1918) six siblings and shared an apartment with her brother and her sister Hermine until Gustav’s death. She herself died in 1937. This early work, which the artist painted when he was studying at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, shows his sister aged around 20 and portrayed in a still very naturalistic style. Soon after this painting was created Gustav and Ernst Klimt founded the Künstler-Compagnie together with Franz Matsch. The painting is now owned by a Klimt descendant and is publicly exhibited at the Leopold Museum as a permanent loan.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Gustav Klimt
Title
Klara Klimt
Date
c. 1880
Art movement
Naturalism I Realism, Historicism
Category
Painting
Material​/technique
Oil on canvas
Credit line of the permanent loan
ARGE Collection Gustav Klimt
Selection of Reference works
  • Tobias Natter: Gustav Klimt. Sämtliche Gemälde, Köln 2012.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Natter 2012, Nr. 6
Keywords
woman/girlportraitornaments/jewelsclothing (upper part of the body)Klara Klimthead turned sideways (fem.)

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woman/girlportraitornaments/jewelsclothing (upper part of the body)Klara Klimthead turned sideways (fem.)