A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold ...

A painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt that was believed to be lost for around 100 years has been sold for $32 million at an auction in Vienna. The "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" by the ...

he became a founding member of the Vienna Secession along with other prominent Austrian artists, including famed painter Gustav Klimt. Motivated by a disassociation from the historicist conservative ...

However, Alfred Weidinger, the art historian and Klimt expert who ... Peter Weinhäupl, the director of the Vienna-based Klimt Foundation, agrees with Weidinger. He says that, in his opinion ...