Gustav Klimt Author:Edmund Swinglehurst, Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt began his life as a successful painter of murals and as a designer of pageants in the age of Emperor Franz Joseph in Austria. He was a key member of the Viennese Succession movement who sought a more modern style of painting. He believed that human suffering could only be reviled through art and love. This ideal is enshrined in many... more » of his finest works, giving an insight into his productive, if turbulent, life.« less