Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 yearshttps://t.co/SBjlxqPovF
— Debby Witt (@debbywitt) January 26, 2024
Gustav Klimt died in 1918, but his works still captivate the popular imagination. This Symbolist painter from the Vienna retains an iconic status among art lovers today due to his vibrant use of bright colors, even the use of gold leaf, as well as his subtle eroticism.
Klimt was in high demand as a portrait painter, and his Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, painted in the final year of his life during World War I, belonged to a Jewish family in Vienna when it was exhibited in 1925. In the ensuing decades its location became a mystery.
BBC News reports that its current owners have possessed it since the 1960s. Now that they are putting it up for auction, people in Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Britain will be able to view it before it is sold.