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Gustav Klimt

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Profession
Painter
Died
Feb 6, 1918
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
ViennaAustria
About
Symbolist painter best known for "The Kiss" and other erotic, passionate works. He was particularly focused on the female body and became one of the foremost proponents of the Vienna Secession movement.
Family
He was one of seven children born to Anna Finster Klimt and the gold engraver, Ernst Klimt the Elder. He was in a long-term partnership with Emilie Louise Flöge, but historians were uncertain if their relationship was actually sexual. He fathered 14 children by a variety of women.

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