Death and Life
ArtistGustav Klimt
Year1910-1915
MediumOil on canvas
LocationLeopold Museum, Vienna
About Death and Life
Klimt reworked it multiple times, changing the death figure from a grinning skeleton to a solemn presence. Life is represented as sleeping figures of all ages. Death watches but does not act. Won first prize at the 1911 International Art Exhibition in Rome.
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