Gustav Klimt (b. 1862 d. 1918) was born in Vienna, he became a prominent Austrian symbolist painter and a member of the Vienna Secession movement. He is renowned for his paintings, murals, sketches and objects d'art. His primary subject was the female body, or the femme fatale, and eroticism. His work is distinguished by his elegant golden style. He also incorporated naturalistic and symbolic elements to express psychological concepts and a rejection of traditional culture.