The Austrian government has not yet commented on the decision to return the Klimt paintings.
Klimt never had his own home: he lived with his mother and two sisters.
The Klimt portraits influenced by San Vitale look more like previews of the glories of sex.
The Belvedere still has a collection of Klimt paintings, including one of his most famous, The Kiss.
But the Adele the world came to know was as Gustav Klimt had painted her in 1907.
In the annals of modern art, Klimt is the go-to source for kitsch.
Klimt was a painter of shimmering landscapes and three of them are among the eight paintings in the Neue Galerie show.
She tried to envelop metallic fabrics, the textures of Gustav Klimt's portraits and a free-spirited mood all into the overarching theme of Art Nouveau.
Art Nouveau master Klimt is one of Austria's most celebrated painters.
Events which have already been confirmed are an exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work at Tate Liverpool and an opera based around the city's famous Adelphi Hotel.
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The iconic Klimt painting was commissioned by the Bloch-Bauer family, confiscated by the Nazis during World War II and finally returned to the family in 2006.
Upcoming highlights include the Gustav Klimt exhibition at Tate Liverpool and the Walker gallery's "Art in the Age of Steam", featuring paintings by Van Gogh, Turner and Monet.
Mr de Villepin decorated his address with erudite references to such cultural totems of Mitteleuropa as Gustav Klimt, Elias Canetti, Stefan Zweig and Mozart (whose 250th birthday it was).
But visitors found paintings including Monet's Water Lilies and works by Picasso, Klimt and Henry Moore replaced by the message, while the details of some rooms would not load at all.
In 2006, after years of litigation, five paintings by Klimt once owned by Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, two Austrian-Jewish collectors who were the painter's contemporaries, were returned to their heirs by Vienna's Belvedere museum.
After 1925, when Adele died at 43, the regular Sunday brunch at Uncle Ferdinand's would always include a viewing of the Klimt portrait, hung in Adele's bedroom in a sweet haze of fresh flowers.
Once home to composers including Beethoven, Mozart, and Johann Strauss, and to artists Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, as well as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Vienna has been at the forefront of major cultural movements for centuries.
His work can be seen in no fewer than ten major museum exhibitions, including shows at the Leopold and the MAK. Yet the best place to discover how Klimt transcended mere ornament in even his gaudiest gilded paintings is at the J.
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