The Frame
Exploring art, space, and the stories behind the frame
Framed Klimt Prints: Museum Style or Modern Hom...
Klimt is one of the most reproduced artists in the world, which means most attempts to hang him at home end up looking either touristy or oddly juvenile. The fix...
Klimt's Paintings of Women: A Complete Guide to...
Gustav Klimt painted around 230 works in his lifetime, and the overwhelming majority depict women. Not as objects, not as decoration, but as the central intellectual and emotional subject of...
Who Did Klimt Paint? His Most Famous Portraits ...
Gustav Klimt painted around 200 works in his lifetime, but his portraits are what made him immortal. Behind the gold leaf and decorative swirls were real women: socialites, fashion designers,...
Why Do Klimt Flower Prints Work Better in Unexp...
Klimt's golden portraits get all the attention, but his garden paintings are quietly the more useful art for a real home. They are softer, more intimate, and far easier to...
Klimt's Secret Gardens: How a Controversial Pai...
The Controversial Klimt: Why He Retreated to Gardens By 1905, Gustav Klimt was the most argued-about painter in Vienna. His Faculty Paintings, commissioned by the University of Vienna for the...
Gustav Klimt's Landscape Paintings: The Other S...
Everyone knows The Kiss. Fewer people know that roughly a quarter of Klimt's painted output, around 54 works, was devoted to landscapes. They are some of the most peaceful, decorative...
Gold, Cats, and Gorgeous Walls: How to Style Kl...
Klimt cat prints are having a moment, and for good reason. They combine the shimmer and pattern of Vienna Secession painting with a subject everyone already loves. The challenge is...
Klimt's Nature Paintings: The Overlooked Master...
Klimt painted gold-clad lovers for the public. He painted gardens for himself. Roughly a quarter of his entire output was landscape and botanical work, made almost entirely during summer holidays,...
Klimt's Sunflower: Why This Quiet Painting Outs...
Mention sunflowers in art and almost everyone pictures the same thing: Van Gogh, yellow vase, yellow wall, yellow flowers. Klimt's Sunflower (1907) is the quieter cousin, and for most modern...
Klimt's Secret Obsession: A Guide to His Fifty ...
Why Klimt's landscapes are fine art's best-kept secret Ask anyone to picture a Klimt and they'll describe gold leaf, embracing lovers, a swirling kiss. Almost no one mentions a birch...
Did Klimt Paint Cats? A Look at Art Nouveau Ani...
Short answer: no, Gustav Klimt never painted a single cat. He loved them obsessively, kept up to ten in his studio, and was photographed cradling one called Katze, but no...
A Visual Guide to Klimt's Patterns: Spirals, Mo...
Klimt's patterns are the reason people fall in love with his work, but most shoppers can't name what they're actually looking at. This guide breaks down the recurring motifs across...
Gold Cat Art Prints and the Warm, Maximalist In...
Cold minimalism is over. Warm maximalism, the design world's slow rebellion against beige rooms and beige feelings, has brought back gold, ornament, pattern and personality. Right at the centre of...
Spirals, Gold, and Geometry: Klimt's Abstract P...
Beyond The Kiss: Why Klimt's Pattern Works Deserve Their Own Spotlight Everyone knows The Kiss. Far fewer people stop to look at what's actually happening inside it: the rectangles wrapping...
Room by Room: How to Style Klimt Gold Pattern W...
Klimt's ornamental work is gorgeous and intimidating in equal measure. Buyers fall in love with the gold leaf swirls and Byzantine geometry, then freeze when it comes to actually hanging...
The Complete Guide to Styling Klimt Nature Wall...
Why Klimt's nature work is easier to style than his figurative art Klimt's portraits demand a room. The gold leaf, the symbolism, the intensity of The Kiss or Judith will...
Transform Your Living Room with Klimt Portrait ...
Klimt's portraits are the trickiest of his work to style. The gold, the ornament, the intense gaze of Adele Bloch-Bauer or the dreamy stillness of Judith demand more from a...
Klimt's Portrait Style: How Gold, Pattern, and ...
The collision of decoration and realism in Klimt's figures Stand in front of a Klimt portrait and your eyes do something strange. They dart. They settle on a face, then...
Klimt's Tree of Life: The Story Behind the Icon...
You've seen it on phone cases, yoga studio walls, and tote bags. But the Tree of Life wasn't conceived as a standalone painting at all. It started life as a...
Living Room Klimt Garden Prints: A Modern Styli...
Klimt's gardens get unfairly lumped in with his gilded portraits, and that's why so many people assume they'll look stuffy at home. They won't, if you treat them as the...