Talk:Gustav Klimt

message: Do we have free photographs of The Kiss? David.Monniaux 09:24, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Kiss

message: "There is speculation that Klimt painted female figures decaptiated and in gross sexual detail prior to painting his signature necklaces and robes. It has been suggested that the high angle of the head almost universally present in Klimt's paintings is an indication of the dismembered forms painted beneath."
needs to be sourced (I am not even sure what it means -- decapitated? Like in a horror movie?) Sdedeo 08:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What does this do cos i am board out of ma skull "gross sexual detail" mean? Sure, there are several Klimt works which could almost be considered pornographic, by the way. (Sorry, never mind the second sentence, I was thinking about Egon Schiele. Excuse me.) 85.226.122.205 02:03, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: speculation

message: ...because it is extremely biased and does not have much to do with Gustav Klimt:
"On June 7, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that 88-year-old Maria Altmann, the niece of Klimt model Adele Bloch-Bauer, could sue Austria in a U.S. court for the return of six Klimt paintings stolen from her uncle by the occupying Nazis in 1938. Kept by Austria after the war, the paintings are currently displayed in Vienna's Belvedere Palace.  The paintings include the celebrated Adele Bloch-Bauer I and have a market value estimated at more than $150,000,000."
and he is a wanka of an aritst
Just one example: Adele Bloch-Bauer wanted Austria to inherit these paintings. This is clearly stated in her will .
The Nazis stealing the paintings however prevented this wish to be carried out. All in all this is a very complicated juristical case, which can definitely not be summed up in several lines. Wikipedia should be a place for facts, not to express views of one side of warring factions.
:While the will did bequeath the paintings to the gallery, it was determined that Adele's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, was in fact the owner of the paintings, not Adele herself. He had had paintings for over ten years before they were stolen, and it was determined that they had never been in Adele's posession.  This information probably really belongs at the article about the suit, but it's good to clear up any misinformation anyway lest people be misled. Theshibboleth 21:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I removed the following section about a Klimt painting lawsuit

message: The main image on the top right should be the one of klimt, should it not?
otherwise its out of sync with almost allother wiki pages...
Removed the "gay" remark at the references...--RexNecros 01:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  main image 

message: --RexNecros 01:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In all likelihood, vandalism. Jobjörn (Talk | contribs) 20:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Henry Scott Tuke was a gay artist. Take a look at his subject matter. Why would Klimt mostly paint women if he weren't heterosexual? It doesn't add up. Van Gogh was irrefutably heterosexual. He even caused a family scandal with his aggressive pursuit of a woman who completely rejected him. 107.77.192.92 (talk) 01:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the "gay" remark 

message: just after his influence on egon schiele this article notes that on of his paintings inspired a danielle steel novel. come on. i take that off, if trashy romance novel need to have a place in this article too, maybe there can be a section trivia or something
trueblood 12:50, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  legacy 

message: Does anybody know what book (or website) would be the most comprehensive guide to his work? This article doesn't indicate how prolific he was. A good friend likes his work very much and such a book would be a nice gift. Thanks. 193.1.172.163 22:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Catalogue of his work?

message: I'm going to try and restructure his biography so it has different sections fo each of the eras in his life. It's a little hard to read with everything jumbled together. --76.179.69.188 20:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring biography 

message: Only the opening sequence features his work, not the end, I believe,
edit: yup it's verified, i'll take the initiative to change it
Ending theme
"Be your girl" by Chieko Kawabe
66.75.229.195 18:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elfen Lied

message: From which year is this picture of Klimt? The file name (and the article) says 1902. The description however says 1912. - Face 13:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture of Klimt

message: How did Gustav Klimt die?--xgmx (T | C | D | R | DR)
:Good question. This article says Stroke and pneumonia. The article on the 1918 flu pandemic (aka the Spanish flu) lists Klimt as one of the prominent victims, but gives no reference. Does anyone have a reference? —MiguelMunoz (talk) 02:39, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  death 

message: Does "Schloss" refers to "castel"? I supose it is german, so it can be a lock or a castle...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.27.16.94 (talk) 17:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have a doubt 

message: I am concerned that a general emphasis in the article might appear suggesting that a high level of sexual explicitness in Klimt's work automatically means that a) it is less valuable as artwork, b) it is exploiting women or in some way derogatory to women, and c) it uses a veil of artistic value to disguise ordinary pornography.
It seems to me a very opinionated, narrow assumption that something sexually explicit is, per se, less artistic or in some other way tarnished.
For example, in the section titled "Golden phase and critical success," phrases like "his drawings often reveal purely sexual interest in women as objects" seem to be quite subjective... that is to say, is it really plain to everyone, from his paintings alone, that he was "purely" interested in "women as objects"?  I don't think so – indeed I'd say quite the contrary.  If these statements can't be sourced from some well-recognised, expert analysis they should be removed from the article.   I've put "citation needed" after those I'm most concerned with, and I'll remove the statements sooner or later if no citation is available because as I've explained they are out of place.  I'm not an expert on Klimt so I'd be interested to know if this is in fact what the authorities say.
There may be other similarly inclined emphases in the article, so I'll look for those too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Et Amiti Gel (talk • contribs) 05:52, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Klimt "purely sexually interested as '''''women as objects'''''" ???? 

message: If you put a redirect to this article here, you should at least mention the keyword in the article, otherwise remove the redirect ASAP! - Joe King  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.159.108.188 (talk) 12:42, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect from "Die Hoffnung"

message: The first paragraph contains the following incorrect (or at least misleading) statement, "His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery." I have just returned from Vienna, where I spent a morning in the Secessionist Gallery in addition to visiting as many museums as I could find containing Klimt pieces. The only work by Klimt now in the Secessionist building is his famous Beethoven Frieze, which is on permanent display there. The rest of that museum is now devoted to exhibits by contemporary artists. The museum in Vienna that has the largest collection of Klimt works appears to be the Leopold Museum. The Belvedere also has many works by Klimt, including "The Kiss."
Fhjern (talk) 01:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect statement in first paragraph 

message: Was Klimt part Cherokee or Choctaw?Lestrade (talk) 02:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Descent

message: Nearly all of the article has been directly copied from this website: http://www.klimtgallery.org/
This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License. Because it is not licensed for use in derivative works, it may not suitable for it to be used on wikipedia other than as a reference source.
Thedeepestblue (talk) 19:37, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh really? If you check their "full biography", you will see "(from wikipedia)" at the end. Doh! Johnbod (talk) 01:19, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation? 

message: How is Klimt famous? Was Klimt famous when he was alive? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.70.164.86 (talk • contribs) at 14:15, 26 April 2005
:yes he was actually very famous when he was alive, being one of Vienna's most prominent painters during his era. -- 76.179.69.188 20:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous?

message: I know that he is usually associated with symbolism, but his later works look expressionistic to me (Girlfriends, The Maiden, his late portraits and so on) but in a beautiful way, thus it would be incorrect to call him only a symbolist painter. I'm proposing that we remove this symbolist and put only painter for this alone is what he was. 5.43.163.116 (talk) 10:56, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: He wasn't an expressionist he was a Symbolist see - Metropoltan Museum of Art, Neuegalerie, Art History Archive among others...Modernist (talk) 11:33, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbolist? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: That article begins thus:
:"Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany."
So how can one justify changing a source which says "... art stolen by the Nazis" to  "... art confiscated by the Nazis", on the basis that "states do only confiscate, not "steal""? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:22, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. One should not change the phrasing of the reliable sources to fit one's original ideas. Dr. K. 17:36, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Nazi plunder]] 

message: Why is "Lady with a Fan" missing? Is there some discrepancy on its origin? I think the model used for the painting is the same woman shown in "Girl Friends" Its dtd aft that work, I believe 1917 1918 and may have been the last painting he completed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.154.1.227 (talk) 04:57, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is "Lady with a Fan" missing?

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message: :I added a source for the 150th birthday celebrations in Vienna. Mettsis (talk) 00:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Edits