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Gustav Klimt paintings by 1890-1899

Klimt as a person was something of an enigma. He did not keep a diary or make remarks about his work, but he did leave an undated statement: “I can paint and draw. ... Only two things are certain.
1) I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for painting than I am in other people, above all women. But other subjects interest me even more. I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting as a person. There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning until night. Figures and landscapes, portraits less often.
2) I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. .... Whoever wants to know something about me -- as an artist, the only notable thing -- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try to see in them what I am and what I want to do.”

Portrait of Joseph Pembauer 1890	Sappho 1890	Two Girls With An Oleander 1890	Emilie Flöge, Aged 17 1891	Portrait of Emilie Flöge 1893
Portrait of a lady 1894	Young Girl sitting 1894	Study of a head of a Hannakin 1894	Portrait of Marie Breunig 1894	Josef Lewinsky 1895
Love 1895	Music 1895	Junius 1896	Orchard 1896	Schubert at the piano I 1896
Sculpture 1896	Girl in the countryside 1896	Blind Man 1896	Lady in an Armchair 1897	Portrait of a Lady 1897

Tragedy 1897	Bewegte Wasser 1898	Fishblood 1898	Lady by the Fireplace 1898	Music II 1898
Lady with Cape and Hat 1898	Minerva or Pallas Athena 1898	Painted composition draft Jusisprudenz 1898	Portrait of Helene Klimt 1898	Poster for the First Art Exhibition of the Secession Art Movement 1898
Sonja Knips 1898	After the Rain. Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha 1899	Girl with Long Hair, with a sketch for 'Nude Veritas' 1899	Nuda Veritas 1899	Portrait of a Woman 1899
Quiet pond in the park of Appeal 1899	Portrait of Serena Lederer 1899	Schubert at the Piano II 1899	Water Nymphs. Silverfish 1899	Orchard in the evening 1899