art-Klimt.com

Gustav Klimt Landscape

From Tate Liverpool:
Klimt’s allegorical works contain virtually no landscapes. Conversely, his landscapes are free from narrative elements and feature few people. Often painted outdoors and finished in his studio, these paintings are usually square. The scenes are tranquil, motionless and undisturbed by any form of activity.
In a work such as The Park, 1910, almost every inch of the canvas surface is covered with a dense layer of leaves, executed in impressionistic strokes that emphasise the picture plane. Similarly, in Apple Tree 1, c1912, spatial zones are merged into a floral curtain. A mere suggestion of branches helps the viewer to separate the blossoms on the tree from the flowers in the foreground and intermediate grassy meadow. Even where perspective is suggested, any sense of recession is counteracted by vast webs of brushstrokes that bring the eye immediately back to the painting’s flat, decorative surface.
Klimt used a square template to help him locate suitable subjects for his landscapes. This often resulted in fragmented views and unusual compositions. He also used optical devices such as binoculars which helps to explain the “close perspective” of these works where everything appears to be brought forward into the same plane as the viewer.
Another effect of the surface density of these paintings combined with high (or no) horizons is that the viewer can, as when contemplating nature, become “lost” in them.

Inside the Forest 1884	Orchard 1896	After the Rain. Garden with Chickens in St. Agatha 1899	Quiet pond in the park of Appeal 1899	Orchard in the evening 1899
Lake Attersee 1900	Farmhouses with Birch Trees 1900	The Swamp 1900	The Tall Poplar Trees 1900	Fir Forest 1901
Fruit Trees 1901	Lakeside with Birch Trees 1901	Buchenhain 1902	Beech Grove 1902	Golden Apple Tree 1903
Birch in a Forest 1903	Farmhouse with Birch Trees 1903	Pear Tree 1903	The Big Poplar 1903	Roses under the Trees 1905

Country Garden with Sunflowers 1905	Landscape Garden. Meadow in Flower 1906	Flower Garden 1907	Poppy Field 1907	The Sunflower 1907
Water Castle 1908	Blooming field 1908	Island in the Attersee 1908	Schloss Kammer am Attersee 1909	Park 1910
Schloss Kammer on the Attersee 1910	The Schloss Kammer on the Attersee 1910	Apple Tree 1912	Park Alley of Schloss Kammer 1912	Avenue of Schloss Kammer Park 1912
Farm Garden with Crucifix 1912	Farmhouse in Upper Austria 1912	The House of Guardaboschi 1912	Italian horticultural landscape 1913	Malcesine on Lake Garda 1913

Chruch in Cassone 1913	Litzlberg on Lake Attersee 1914	Country House by the Attersee 1914	Litzlberg on Lake Attersee 1915	Church in Unterach on the Attersee 1916
Apple Tree 1916	Houses at Unterach on the Attersee 1916	Horticultural landscape with a hilltop 1916	Park of Schönbrunn 1916	Unterach on Lake Attersee 1916