Stephen Dillane

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (Malkovich) whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.  Among his masterpieces is the painting The Kiss.  Shooting for the movie is scheduled to begin on January 4, 2005 in Vienna.

Klimt was best known for his murals and portraits and was a founder of the Vienna Secession movement in the late 19th century.  Klimt (1862-1918) was a powerful artistic figure in the Art Nouveau movement, called Jugendstil in Austria, that swept Europe and later the United States prior to World War I. In the past 25 years his sensuous and even erotic paintings of women and lovers enveloped in flat swirls of decorative color patterns and gold leaf have become as popular in America as the works of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

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