Today would be the artist’s 153rd birthday. Josef Anton Trčka, Portrait Gustav Klimt (1914). Public domain. Popularly known as The Lovers, The Kiss is widely considered to be one of the finest ...

Egon Schiele's "Nude Self‑Portrait," created in 1910 with black chalk, watercolor, gouache and white heightening on brown wrapping paper. (Courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) The early ...

The city was the crossroads for individuals who would instigate various convulsions to come: Sigmund Freud, father of ...

A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for $108.4 million, making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — sold to a ...

Mental Floss has partnered with FOTO, a visual storytelling platform from Getty Images, to bring you articles featuring stunning images from Getty's archive. The famously erotic, semi-psychedelic, ...

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is the first time they will be exhibiting its nude works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso for an “erotic and evocative” exhibition ...

One of the best loved paintings in history, let's learn about the Kiss by Gustav Klimt. This kissing couple is one of the best loved paintings in history, but what do we really know about it? Let's ...

A portrait by Gustav Klimt fetched a record price at a New York auction, which also sold a fully functional gold toilet, a satirical artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, for millions.

One hundred years after his death, Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) is finally making his first trip to California, for an exhibition at the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. The ...

With the death of Maria Altmann on Monday at age 94, the world has lost a trailblazer of Holocaust art restitution and one of the last links to painter Gustav Klimt’s Vienna. In recent years, Altmann ...