Klimt's Attersee Landscapes
Klimt spent most summers from 1900 to 1916 on the Attersee lake in Upper Austria, and painted most of his landscapes there.
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About the series
Gustav Klimt is best known for his golden portraits, but landscapes make up a large part of his work. Most were painted during the summers he spent with the Flöge family on the Attersee, a lake in the Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria, between 1900 and 1916.
Almost all are square. Klimt used a viewfinder and sometimes a telescope to frame close sections of nature, so the pictures are flat and patterned: the surface of the lake, orchards, birch woods, flower gardens and the village of Unterach or Schloss Kammer seen across the water. There is rarely a person in sight. Many were started outdoors and finished in his Vienna studio. On Lake Attersee, from 1900, is in the Leopold Museum in Vienna, and the Belvedere in Vienna holds several others, including views of Schloss Kammer.
The square format hangs easily in most rooms. Two or four canvases of the same size make a neat grid.
