Gustav Klimt · 1915
Death and Life
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Klimt's monumental allegory — a tangled cluster of human bodies on the right confronts a robed Death on the left. His grandest meditation on mortality, painted during the First World War.
Up to 16 × 14 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
+ tax at checkout
The story of Death and Life
Death and Life is an oil-on-canvas painting by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. The painting was started in 1908 and completed in 1915. It depicts an allegorical subject in an Art Nouveau (Modern) style. The painting measures 178 by 198 centimeters and is now housed at the Leopold Museum, in Vienna.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. He is best known for The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
All Gustav Klimt prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
You may also like
Gustav Klimt · 1908
The Kiss
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium · Large
From $15
Gustav Klimt · 1907
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Mini · Petite
From $15
Gustav Klimt · 1909
Tree of Life (Stoclet Frieze)
Mini · Petite · Small · Medium · Large · Extra Large
From $15
Gustav Klimt · 1907–08
Danaë
Mini
From $15
Gustav Klimt · 1905
The Three Ages of Woman
Mini · Petite · Small
From $15
Gustav Klimt · 1907–08
Hope II
Mini · Petite · Small
From $15