GUSTAV KLIMT (HIRMER) (HB)

As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, as the portraitist of fashionable ladies and as an illustrator of unashamed eroticism, Klimt was both the enfant terrible and the darling of Viennese society. His most famous works, like The Kiss and his portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer, have become icons of the modern world.