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Death and Life (First version) | Gustav Klimt | 1911

Death and Life (First version) | Gustav Klimt | 1911

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Death and Life by Gustav Klimt presents one of the artist’s most profound reflections on mortality, beauty, and the fragile intensity of human existence. Created in 1911, this first version preserves the painting’s original golden background, before Klimt later reworked the composition and replaced it with a bluish-gray tone. That golden atmosphere gives the scene a more radiant, symbolic power, heightening the contrast between the dark figure of Death and the vibrant group of human figures gathered in Life.

First exhibited at the International Art Exhibition in Rome in 1911, where it earned Klimt a gold medal, this masterpiece became one of his most celebrated allegorical works. Rich in ornament, emotion, and symbolism, Death and Life transforms the eternal tension between existence and mortality into an image of haunting elegance.

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  • Title Death and Life (First Version) / Tod und Leben (erste Fassung)
  • Artist Gustav Klimt
  • Year of creation 1910-1911 (first exhibited under the title "Death" at the International Exhibition of Art in Rome, 1911, where it earned Klimt a gold medal. The first version featured a gold-leaf background, with Death haloed and his head bent, and only five figures in the Life group. Klimt reworked the painting in 1912/13 and again in 1915/16, painting over the original gold with bluish-gray and adding additional female figures)
  • Technique/Medium Oil on canvas
  • Original dimensions 180 x 200 cm
  • Collection/Museum Leopold Museum, Vienna (the final reworked version is in the Leopold Museum; the 1911 "first version" is documented only through a 1913 art-magazine historical color photograph and Klimt's preparatory studies — the original gold background was painted over and the composition revised in 1915)

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