Gustav Klimt’s Life As An Artist
One of the most distinguished members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement was Gustav Klimt. He was an Austrian Symbolist painter. His works of art included murals, paintings and sketches. Gustav Klimt’s primary subject of interest was the female body. It is obvious in his works that the theme were marked by explicit eroticism.
Klimt was one of the three boys of the family. All three of them showed artistic talent even in their young years. When he was sixteen years old, Gustav Klimt was granted a scholarship to the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. He studied there for seven years and received a number of trainings as an architectural painter. His early works were regarded as academic because of the conservative training he got. Ten years later, he received the Golden Order of Merit from the emperor of Austria because of his contributions as an artist. He was also nominated as an honorary members to two prestigious universities namely the University of Munich and University of Vienna.
