Hollywood strike may dampen Paris couture Jan 23, 2008
Embroidered gold swirls and jeweled patchworks were inspired by the paintings of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. Pod-shaped jackets and pencil skirts evoked the silhouettes pioneered by couturier Cristobal Balenciaga in the 1960s down to the oversized metallic domed hats. (MSNBC -- News)
Dior: Vivid colors to banish doom and gloom Jan 22, 2008
At Dior the show was a multi-colored, multi-faceted, super-size-me tonic. (Chris Moore/Karl Prouse). (International Herald Tribune)
THEATRICAL: Dior's Paris show was a frenzy of colour and big hairAFP Jan 22, 2008
Gold arabesque embroidery and geometric motifs were reminiscent of the paintings of Gustav Klimt. In the programme notes Galliano said he had been inspired by a portrait of Amelie Gautrea in a plunge-neckline dress by the 19th century American painter John Singer Sargent, which caused a scandal at the time. (iAfrica.com)
Liverpool to launch EU culture capital celebrations Jan 11, 2008
Liverpool, the waterfront of which is a UNESCO world heritage site, has the biggest number of museums in Britain outside London, and visitors can take in shows featuring artists such as Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and architect Le Corbusier. Thanks to the culture capital link, a series of internationally-known events are also taking place in Liverpool in 2008 including the MTV Europe music awards, the Turner Prize for modern art and the BBC Electric Proms music festival. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Liverpool arts fiesta runs up 20m debt Dec 30, 2007
Art exhibitions will include a show featuring the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, one of whose works fetched 73m last year. Liverpool is the first British city to win the Capital of Culture accolade since Glasgow in 1990. (Times Online)
Gustav Klimt reproductions at charity auction for needy children Dec 23, 2007
SINGAPORE : Only the really wealthy can afford Gustav Klimt originals which cost millions of dollars. So a lacquer reproduction priced at about S 400 can be considered a bargain. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
A Kiss is Just a Kiss Dec 6, 2007
My favorite art piece devoted to the topic is Gustav Klimt s large size painting simply called: The Kiss. It is aptly described as a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. (Littleton Independent, MA)
Romancing the stones Dec 4, 2007
Instead, Gustav Klimt's iconic portrait, which celebrates its centenary this year, is hanging on the walls of the Neue Galerie in New York, which is devoted to Austrian and German art ... Since it opened only this autumn, you cannot claim that designers have been inspired by the exhibition "Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" (until June 30, www. (International Herald Tribune)
* The scientific potential of painting Dec 1, 2007
The group obtained images of 554 paintings from 181 artists, including Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt, Thomas Gainsborough and Peter Paul Rubens. They then narrowed the list down to five artists, such as Turner, who were painting before, during and after the time of volcanic eruptions. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Scientists useart to track climate change Nov 29, 2007
The volcanic group included paintings by 19 artists, including Turner, Claude Lorrain, John Singleton Copley, Friedrich Caspar David, Breton Jules, Edgar Degas, Alexander Cozens and Gustav Klimt. The scientists measured the color ratio in all the paintings and found that those with the highest red to green ratio were in the volcanic group. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Beauty gurus define a bolder and brighter aesthetic Nov 20, 2007
Vidal Sassoon's palate this year is inspired by the gold, red and green tones in the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Makeup, meanwhile, is moving in the same dramatic direction as hair with the resurrection of the 1940s sophistication of Audrey Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, according to representatives of international brands such as Make Up For Ever. (International Herald Tribune)
Simplicity Behind Saturated Images from New Milford Award Winner Nov 16, 2007
"Other artists have certainly influenced me," said Ms. Crawford, who cites Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt, a prominent member of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement, and her former teacher Robert Brackman, a Ukrainian-born artist best known for figural works, still lifes and portraits of famous people including the Rockefellers and Charles Lindbergh, as main influences in her art. Amongst contemporaries, she cites Doug Dawson's book "Capturing Light and Color with Pastel" as an inspiration. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Matisse Sets Record as Christie's Auction Totals $395 Million Nov 7, 2007
Last night's sale included a group of German and Austrian paintings, reflecting the heightened demand for names including Lyonel Feininger, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Many of them sold, though a 3-foot-square 1912 painting by August Macke, ``Paar im Wald (Couple Walking in the Woods),'' was too pricey at over $15 million, particularly for an artist who had never surpassed $4. (Bloomberg)
Arts De La Carte Oct 20, 2007
October 20, 2007 -- SURE, Gustav Klimt is an artistic genius - but have you tried his pastry. After you visit the Neue Galerie's newly opened Klimt exhibit. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Artistic Perspective Oct 18, 2007
October 18, 2007 -- GUSTAV Klimt was a busy, busy man. When he wasn't fathering 14 or more illegitimate children, the Austrian expressionist was shaking up the art world with sublime, often erotic paintings and drawings. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Liverpool trumpets cultural future (plus Macca, Ringo and Doddy) Sep 29, 2007
The new details build on those already announced, including a visit by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, a new work by Sir John Tavener to be performed in the Catholic cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and exhibitions of the work of Gustav Klimt and Le Corbusier. The aims were outlined by producers Fiona Gasper and Claire McColgan. (Guardian Unlimited)
Tate pockets oval Billiard table Sep 23, 2007
The Tate galleries have also announced blockbuster art shows for next year featuring Francis Bacon and Gustav Klimt ... To celebrate its status as the European Capital of Culture 2008, Tate Liverpool will present the first comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work staged in the UK.. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Let's Face It! is a creative outlet Sep 7, 2007
They started out looking at the work of Henri Matisse, and Gustav Klimt, whose work is full of color and pattern. Then they moved on to more realistic painting like Davinci s Mona Lisa and Edgar Degas. (Westerly Sun, RI)
THINK GLOBAL, VIEW LOCAL Sep 7, 2007
Still farther up Museum Mile, however, the sleeper of the season awaits: "Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections" at the Neue Galerie ... - "Gustav Klimt" at the Neue Galerie. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
What CAN'T you buy with a 35m lottery win? Aug 22, 2007
3m (2004) Gustav Klimt, Portrait Of Adele Bloch-Bauer II - 44. 2m (2006) Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait Of Dr Gachet - 41. (BBC News -- UK)
A painting with a contested past in the Nazi era makes its way to NYC Jul 27, 2007
Last summer Lauder unveiled a sensuous, 1907 portrait of a gold-gowned Viennese lady by Gustav Klimt. Lauder reportedly paid $135 million for "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," a portrait that hung in a Vienna museum for decades until it was surrendered to the American heirs of the Austrian Jewish family whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis in 1938. (Boston Globe)
$102M diamond skull fails to sell Jul 19, 2007
A sale of the skull for 50 million pounds would put Hirst on a price level with Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt, dead artists who produced some of the 20th century's most famous works. Hirst is a boon for dealers and auction houses. (AZCentral -- News)
Artist paints fine arts, signs, buildings Jun 27, 2007
Other favorites include Gustav Klimt, Norman Rockwell and Michelangelo, who shares her birthday. She was also influenced by her professors at CWU.. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
10 things to do this weekend Jun 22, 2007
See actor John Malkovich in this biopic about artist Gustav Klimt in 1900's Vienna at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute. June 22, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., June 23, 3:15 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., June 24, 3:15 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Tickets are $9, $7 students and $5 Film Center members. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Venice Biennale opens to public Jun 11, 2007
Since then the biennial fair has featured the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt. It also helped Henry Moore - who won the prize for sculpture in 1948 - to launch his career. (BBC News)
Big season for art shows in Europe Jun 9, 2007
In its 120-year history, the Biennale has advanced art discourse by presenting to the public such notables as Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso and the Pop Art movement. Recent editions have drawn several hundred thousand people to the lagoon exhibit spaces over five months still just a fraction of Documenta's expected attendance, a consequence of Venice's expense and difficult geography. (Yahoo News)
Artist Damien Hirst Says His $100 Million Diamond Skull Is Priced `Right' Jun 2, 2007
A sale of the skull for about $100 million would put Hirst, 41, on a price level with Pablo Picasso and Gustav Klimt, dead artists who produced some of the 20th century's most famous works. Hirst, wearing jeans and a blue shirt imprinted with a black bat-winged skull, said he wasn't thinking of the newspaper headlines his $100 million skull would get when he set the price. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Christie's bullish on Asian art May 30, 2007
67-billion that was given a shot in the arm by a blockbuster sale of five paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt worth $327-million. Our headline sales might actually fall because they were so strong last year, said Dolman. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
NY auction houses eye fat bids May 6, 2007
Five Gustav Klimt paintings were sold for a total of 327 million dollars last year, while a trademark drip-style Jackson Pollock painting broke a world record by fetching 140 million dollars. Wealthy collectors appear to be ready to reach into their deep pockets again this year. (India Times)
Thousands of Nazi-Looted Works Still Hang in German Museums, Survey Shows Apr 29, 2007
The gallery also purchased a Gustav Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, restituted by the Austrian government, for $135 million last year. The Kirchner return unleashed what Neumann termed an ``emotional debate'' in Germany. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
* Handbook helps Jewish families claim stolen art Apr 23, 2007
There are works in basements and vaults," Schnabel, a lawyer who handles restitution claims, said. Even before it hit the shelves last month, the book he wrote with historian Monika Tatzkow was adding to pressure on the German government to return a painting from the Biedermeier era featured on its cover. The work, Fiat Justitia by Carl Spitzweg, formed part of the German government's art collection for decades after World War II. But it originally belonged to Jewish trader Leo Bendel, who died... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The Impermanent Collection Apr 13, 2007
At a time when a Jackson Pollock or a Gustav Klimt can go for about $140 million, it's no surprise that one institution after another has begun to see its "permanent collection" as just so much movable merchandise. But art is no ordinary inventory. (Time.com)
Austria tourist information facts Apr 10, 2007
Trivia on Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Ars Electronica, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Graz clock tower, Sound of Music tours, The Name of The Rose cha paintings ... Well, no, there is more to it than that, such as Vienna s Museums, Melk Abbey, Hitler in Linz, Mozart s birthplace in Salzburg, the Sigmund Freud Museum, Gustav Klimt s art, Ars Electronica, Arnold Schwarzenegger home town, the Graz clock tower and Sound of Music tours ... The Lentos Kunstmuseum contains great artworks by Gustav Klimt,... (Suite101.com)
Erotic Fine Art and Artists Mar 30, 2007
Included are Gustav Klimt, Balthus and Michelangelo ... Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918) is perhaps considered one of the most erotic visual artists of all time. (Suite101.com)
Don't Hesitate, Just (van) Gogh Mar 23, 2007
On display in this elegant museum (home to the 135 million Gustav Klimt) are 80 paintings and drawings - more than a third of them van Gogh's - paired with works by the German, Austrian and Russian artists inspired by his broken brush strokes, vivid stabs of color and tormented life. "He's the single most powerful influence on that whole trend of modern art," says the show's curator, Jill Lloyd, who pronounces van Gogh the Dutch way, like a strangled cough. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Looted by Nazis, returned, now on sale Feb 23, 2007
Last summer a portrait by Gustav Klimt that had been returned by the Austrian government to the family of its former owner became the most expensive painting ever when it was auctioned for $135m (69m). The collection of Jacques Goudstikker will go on sale in the spring at Christie's, the auction house that sold the Klimt painting. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Sculptor proves his mettle Feb 23, 2007
Catonsville sculptor John Ferguson says he may be the only Orioles fan who also admires the drawings of Viennese artist Gustav Klimt. "Baseball fans are not particularly noted for art appreciation," said Ferguson, 67, who loves the Orioles so much he said he may go to Florida this spring to watch them train. (Catonsville Times, MD)
Streisand, others on LACMA board Feb 9, 2007
Streisand, a supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes and a funder of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative, collected German Expressionist art by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Emil Nolde as a young art enthusiast, the museum said. More recently, she has acquired works by John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, William McGregor Paxton and others. (Los Angeles Times)
Full Story Jan 29, 2007
BIG BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES - Pagesix - New York Post Online Edition. Monday, January 29, 2007 Last Update: 09:35 AM EST. (New York Post -- Gossip)
HAUTE OR NOT? Jan 26, 2007
rie Hash and Cathy Pill, by coincidence, both said they were inspired by the Viennese Secessionist artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. As it turned out, though, the references weren't particularly apparent in either Hash's pleated tweed miniskirts and tutus or Cathy Pill's abstract photoprint and jacquard dresses. (Style.com -- Trends)
Art auctions Jan 13, 2007
The sensational sale of five pictures painted between 1903 and 1912 by the Viennese artist Gustav Klimt that together totaled $327 million has been recounted at length in the news media. Less has been said about the close relationship that Stephen Lash, chairman of Christie's Americas, developed over the years with Maria Altman, a key character in the four groups of heirs to the Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer collection of Klimt's pictures. (International Herald Tribune)
Audacity brings chef sweet success Jan 1, 2007
Take, for instance, his "Gustav Klimt" wedding cake. Replete with eye-catching geometric patterns and rich, hand-painted metallic gold, it could very well inspire the bride and groom with romantic visions just as Klimt's 1907 painting "The Kiss" has among art lovers. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Arts reviewMaria, Pavarotti and The Da Vinci Code - this year's big stories Dec 29, 2006
It was a bumper year at the auction house, with record sales for works by artists including Gustav Klimt. A Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar sold for $95. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Vincent Van Gogh Remains Most Popular Artist in U.S. Dec 28, 2006
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt ... Gustav Klimt, arguably the most praised artist of the year made it to the top 3 on the list with his oil painting, "The Kiss.". (North County Times)
Collectors' additions Dec 24, 2006
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, director Michael Govan arrived in April and spent much of his first three months on the job trying to quietly raise money to buy five Gustav Klimt paintings that had been seized by the Nazis in the 1930s, held by Austria for decades, then restituted to the surviving family of owner Adele Bloch-Bauer. But while the paintings were on view at LACMA, the behind-the-scenes bidding leaped beyond the museum's means. (Los Angeles Times)
Backlash over return of looted art Dec 10, 2006
In Austria, months after the nation lost a series of hugely valuable paintings by Gustav Klimt, Vienna's Albertina museum faces the prospect of handing over 4,000 works. We are talking about very large numbers of works for which there is often a huge demand in a very crowded art market and which thus command huge prices,' said one London-based art consultant. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
A Year Of Awesome Auctions Dec 10, 2006
November saw the most valuable auction in history as Christie's unloaded $491 million worth of impressionist and modern pieces, most notably four Gustav Klimt paintings looted by the Nazis and only recently returned to the family of its original owners. Only a night earlier, rival Sotheby's (nyse: - - ) held its evening sale of impressionist and modern art, which yielded $239 million, its highest total since May 1990. (Forbes)
NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS: Highlights and Exclusives, Dec. 11, 2006 Issue Dec 4, 2006
"Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism" (through March 4) compiles almost 100 paintings and sketches by such artists as Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Viewed separately, these works are not obviously influenced by the Dutch master. (PR Newswire)
High art has become big business Dec 4, 2006
Last month one Picasso failed to sell at auction and another went for less than the minimum suggested price of $15 million -- even while paintings by other artists, most notably Gustav Klimt, soared. Picasso is a great brand, but it's not the only brand,'' said Austin. (The Miami Herald)
Forget Klimt, art thieves eye up Slater Street door Dec 1, 2006
The theft comes as Liverpool prepares to celebrate 08 and the arrival of the first UK exhibition by celebrated Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. The stolen artwork, called Liverpool Love Rat, has been on the door in Slater Street for two years. (ic Liverpool)
Canadian art proves it has a hot market Nov 29, 2006
Earlier this month at Christie's in New York, $491-million U.S. worth of art changed hands in one evening, the costliest art auction in history, with records set for the likes of Gustav Klimt, Andy Warhol and Willem De Kooning. Still, the 2006 fall season has showed brisk sales for Canadian works in the $20,000 to $75,000 range, including smaller pieces by David Milne. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Art or a part of history? Nov 29, 2006
In one of the most prominent, five Gustav Klimt paintings seized by Nazis in the late 1930s and exhibited for decades in Vienna were returned in January to Maria Altmann of Los Angeles and other heirs after a court fight. And in France last year, a man noticed his father's suitcase in a Holocaust exhibition and now wants Auschwitz, which lent it for display, to give it up. (Los Angeles Times)
John Sentamu: Touching a nerve with the tribe Nov 26, 2006
It went for twice its pre-sale estimates in a frenzied New York auction that also saw four Gustav Klimt paintings fetch a total of $192. 7m (101m). (TimesOnline)
Outlaw Ned Kelly still causing trouble Nov 25, 2006
A big factor in its success was "restitution" art - including four major oils by Gustav Klimt confiscated in the Nazi era and restored to the heirs of their former owner. One of these, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, was the top scorer of the sale at $US87. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Letter from Berlin Is Too Much Being Made On (and of) Nazi Art? As more paintings returned to their original Jewish owners fetch millions at auction, critics in Germany say that the claims of restitution have become about money, not morality Nov 22, 2006
The works in question include four paintings by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, and a famous Berlin street scene by the German expressionist Ernest Ludwig Kirchner sold earlier this month for nearly $50 million. So-called "restituted" art pieces either directly looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced to sell for below market value to escape Hitler's regime made up more than half of the record $491 million total sale at Christie's in New York earlier this month. (Time.com)
Record art prices astonish New York dealers; More than $1.3bn of art sold in two weeks... Nov 20, 2006
Ronald Lauder, the corporate businessman, bought a work by Gustav Klimt for $135m in June, which became the highest price ever known to be paid for a painting. The record lasted only a few months, until David Geffen, the record and film producer, sold a Jackson Pollock work to an unknown buyer for $140m. (The Drudge Report)
Simm to play Van Gogh as TV makes drama of art Nov 11, 2006
A biopic of Gustav Klimt, starring John Malkovich as the Austrian artist, is awaiting release. The lives of artists is a recurrent theme in the history of film, with their scandalous or tragic tales of at least as much interest as their paintings. (Independent)
An exuberant but highly perplexing market Nov 11, 2006
Professionals did expect spectacular prices to be paid for a few pictures by the early 20th-century Viennese artist Gustav Klimt, but few anticipated the tidal wave that carried the entire market. At Sotheby's on Tuesday night, there was little to warn of the price explosion that would take place a day later at Christie's. (International Herald Tribune)
Billionaires Competing in the Art World Nov 11, 2006
On Wednesday night, at Christie's, works by Gustav Klimt, Paul Gauguin, Egon Schiele, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and others sold for nearly half a billion dollars to anonymous buyers. It was billed as the biggest art auction in history and exceeded the hype. (ABC News)
Klimt crowns record art auction Nov 10, 2006
A 1912 portrait, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetched almost $88m (45m). The painting was one of five Klimt works looted by the Nazis and returned to their owners earlier this year. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Auction sets $491 million record Nov 10, 2006
The likeness of Adele Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese socialite portrayed by Gustav Klimt in 1912, rose to $87. 93 million, one third more than the upper end of the estimate. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Culture City reveals taste of 2008 Nov 9, 2006
The city will celebrate European and British legends from Anton Chekhov, Le Corbusier, James Tissot and Gustav Klimt to Benjamin Britten and William Shakespeare ... These concerts will be staged to coincide with the UK's first comprehensive exhibition of work by the legendary Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, at Tate Liverpool, which is also the inspiration for a wider series of concerts by the Liverpool Phil. (Northwest Regional Development Agency (press release))
Disputed Picasso withdrawn from auction amid lawsuit Nov 9, 2006
Four of the paintings were by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt: a golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, went for $87. 9 million ( 68. (International Herald Tribune)
New York art auction fetches $640m Nov 9, 2006
More than $A500 million worth of art has sold under the hammer in New York, with a painting by Gustav Klimt going for almost $A114 million in an evening that saw records tumbling one after another. The sale at Christie's yielded more than $A640 million, a record for a single auction and higher than the most bullish pre-sale estimates. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Top Stories)
Disputed Picasso auction halted Nov 9, 2006
All eyes are on four paintings by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian artist, which were at the centre of a Nazi restitution case earlier this year. That case was resolved to the satisfaction of the owners, who have now put these masterworks up for auction. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
