Klimt

American

[klimt] / klɪmt /

noun

Gustav 1862–1918, Austrian painter.

Klimt British

/ klɪmt /

noun

Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1862–1918, Austrian painter. He founded the Vienna Sezession (1897), a group of painters influenced by Art Nouveau

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Klimt

The Klimt auction was like watching a tennis match, said Mari-Claudia Jiménez, Sotheby’s former chairman and president, who worked with Barker for nearly a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

Tuesday also saw a sculpture of a fully functioning gold toilet by the conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan picking up $12.1m just an hour after the record-breaking Klimt sale.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

Six bidders battled for 20 minutes over the "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which Klimt painted between 1914 and 1916.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

Ebi Kohlbacher is an expert on the great Austrian symbolist artist and knew some Klimt paintings had been lost.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025

She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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