The majority of Klimt's most popular and well-known works fall into this category, although it covers only a small portion of his total career.
Much of the artist's fame during his own lifetime arose from his portraits of leading figures of Viennese society: as can be seen from this selection, the portraits present one of the best ways of tracing Klimt's artistic development throughout his career.
Klimt painted landscapes throughout his life, often employing the square format for this subject matter.
After leaving the Secessionist movement and discarding the highly-stylised gold paintings, Klimt's general works - mainly allegories of, life, love, femininity and sexuality - developed under a series of influences.
Here we show a number of works from Klimt's formative years, ranging from the conservatively classical 'acadmic' works to the freer form of the pre-Secessionist paintings.
Dating mostly from the earlier stages of his career, Klimt produced a number of exquisite allegorical drawings, a small selection of which are shown here.
Here we show for your interest a number of Klimt's experimental, compositional or unfinished sketches, many of them more directly erotic than the allegorical paintings.
A number of Klimt's most important works were destroyed by fire at the Immendorf palace in 1945. Here we show photographics records of some of these paintings.
