1906, Gustav Klimt, Cottage Garden with Sunflowers -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: Sunflowers and dahlias, marigolds, asters, and phlox. In this work, Klimt more than lives up to his reputation as the "artist of eternal flowering." Against a backdrop of verdant green, he filled the picture plane with a vibrant sea of flowers. This luxuriant, vivid array stirs memories of a radiant summer day. It transports us to a dream world beyond space and time, where flowers and leaves never wilt. One typical characteristic of Klimt's landscape paintings is their square format. In order to find the perfect section of a scene, the painter used a viewfinder. "This is a hole cut into a piece of cardboard," he explained in a letter to his lover Mizzi Zimmermann.
1906, Gustav Klimt, Cottage Garden with Sunflowers -- Belvedere Palace (Vienna)
From the museum label: Sunflowers and dahlias, marigolds, asters, and phlox. In this work, Klimt more than lives up to his reputation as the "artist of eternal flowering." Against a backdrop of verdant green, he filled the picture plane with a vibrant sea of flowers. This luxuriant, vivid array stirs memories of a radiant summer day. It transports us to a dream world beyond space and time, where flowers and leaves never wilt. One typical characteristic of Klimt's landscape paintings is their square format. In order to find the perfect section of a scene, the painter used a viewfinder. "This is a hole cut into a piece of cardboard," he explained in a letter to his lover Mizzi Zimmermann.