Gustav Klimt
Die Zeichnungen
The online oeuvre catalogue of Gustav Klimt’s complete drawings is open to all scholars, researchers, and interested users free of charge. It is continuously being expanded and updated.
Comprising almost 5,000 known drawings, Gustav Klimt’s drawn oeuvre is many times larger than his output in painting, which numbers around 300 works. Klimt's works on paper impressively illustrate his extraordinary talent and outstanding skills. Most of his drawings were created in the course of monumental allegories (Burgtheater, Faculty Paintings, Beethoven Frieze) and portraits of society ladies, as well as in the context of his pictorial inventions for the Cycle of Life. All of them—each drawing in its own right—are also autonomous works of art of supreme quality.
Currently online: the complete drawings through 1903 plus studies for Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917). This comprises volume I of the printed catalogue raisonné by Alice Strobl, as well as the relevant works from volume IV, plus all the drawings that have appeared since then. As sole exception the studies for the painting Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, dating from 1917, have also been included. Additional groups of works will be published on an ongoing basis.
