To bring recognition to his fine art masterpieces, let's commemorate Gustav Klimt's 150th year from his birth day. Happy 150th Birthday!! This mini featurette is a tribute created for the love of his exquisite art, one of which I like so dearly is that of a painting of lovers he painted at the age of 45, called "The Kiss". The art images, reproduction images, his unfinished painting 'Adam and Eve', and Google's doodle to honor his 150th Birthday are all presented in an imagery layout with music I personally chose as it is my favorite composed by Klimt's fellow Austrian composer Johann Strauss II waltz "Voices of Spring" ("Frühlingsstimmen"). I opted out off my first music choices I like which were by Klimt's fellow Austrian friend composer, conductor, and Vienna Court Opera director Gustav Mahler symphonies but instead used Strauss II's music for this. © 2012- Infinity Gladis Giada. Flower Dove Productions. *** If you want the music of which album it is from, please ask! and do not click! or access whatever link YouTube posts to the right under the video & under the "Video Views" counter (see YouTube posted link above on Monday, July 16, 2012, it posted "Artist: Gran Orquesta Vienesa Buy "Voces de Primavera" on: AmazonMP3") because it is not that one, not that artist, not that album title! which YouTube co-links this film with to another YouTube classical music generated site or YouTube 'matched third party content' ! *** GUSTAV KLIMT a popular Imperial Austrian Symbolist Art Nouveau Painter ■ Born: July 14, 1862 Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria ■ Died: February 6, 1918, Vienna, Austria, aged 55, of stroke and pneumonia ■ Buried: Hietzing Cemetery in Vienna, Austria ■ Mother: Anna Finster Klimt ■ Father: Ernst Klimt (the Elder, was a gold engraver) ■ Family Origin: lower middle class of Moravian origin ■ Marital Status: Never Married ■ Lifelong Companion: Emilie Flöge ■ Children: 14 ( at least, according to source http://www.iklimt.com and according to Wikipedia source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt ) ■ Painting Style: gold leaf technique, Byzantine imagery, abstract, mosaic-inspired, use of sepia,greens,blues,yellows,gold color and eye-catching blends of color, painting of the female body, frank eroticism, uncensored paintings due to mostly affluent male patronage, when home wears a long robe with no undergarments and wears sandals ■ Painting Price: sold in millions in prices, highest prices paid for an individual art work. In 2003, the highest known price paid for "Landhaus am Attersee" sold for $29,128,000 (source: http://wiki.answers.com) but was surpassed by a $40.4 million sold at Sotheby's in November 2011 of a routine Attersee painting ■ Reproductions: some reproduced using collotype lithography ■ Known for: paintings, sketches, murals, art objects, in euro gold coins, the "Beethoven Frieze" for the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition painted directly on the walls at Secession Building in Vienna ■ Film: Klimt (2006) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/ ■ Website: http://www.iklimt.com __________________ "I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women...There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night...Who ever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures."---Gustav Klimt __________________________________________________________________ Images and Music is by respective owners. No copyright infringement intended. ■ Original Classical Waltz Music Composer: Johann Strauss II ■ Music Title: Voices of Spring or "Frühlingsstimmen", Op. 410 written in 1882, for orchestra and solo soprano voice. ■ Music CD Album 3 Música Clássica: Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra •Artist - Strauss, Johann by André Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra (André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer; best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra) http://www.andrerieu.com •Album - On the Beautiful Danube & Other Music of Vienna(1997), Waltzes(1999) ***If you want the music of which album it is from, please ask! and do not click! or access whatever link YouTube posts to the right under the video & under the 'video views" counter! (see YouTube posted link above, their 'matched third party" link, it posted "Artist: Gran Orquesta Vienesa Buy "Voces de Primavera" on: AmazonMP3") because it is not that one!*** "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action" --John Wolfgang von Goethe (Proverbs in Prose, 1819 - German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist 1749-1832)

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1. Thank you for your sincere compliments, TheStockwell, and for noticing that she was his mother. It was my not proofreading after I finished typing the notes, there was a distraction.. I got the number of his children from Wikipedia, but it did not state the number of women. (Wikipedia link is in the above notes). His art speaks of his love for women. Again, thank you.
2. Great little film and PERFECT choice of music! Notes: Klimt never married - Anna Finster was his mother. 14 women CLAIMED Klimt fathered children by them. This was after his death, though. Great little film and PERFECT choice of music! I repeat: