Death and Life
1910–1915 · Oil on canvas · Leopold Museum, Vienna
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)
- Year
- 1910–1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 180.5 × 200.5 cm
- Collection
- Leopold Museum, Vienna
- Movement
- Vienna Secession
On the left, Death stands alone on a dark grey-green ground: a grinning skull above a robe of black crosses on blue and violet, a small club raised in one bony hand. Across the gap, sleepers drift together in a mound of pink, orange and green pattern: a mother and baby, lovers, an old woman, and a girl at the edge whose eyes are open. Klimt began the canvas in 1910, and in 1911 it won a gold medal at the international exhibition in Rome under the title Death. He reworked it more than once over the following years. It hangs in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Jewelled pinks and greens set against a near-black grey-green field and a skeletal figure make this a picture for a study, library or living-room wall. Pair it with Böcklin's Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, hung at 24×36 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Vienna Secession painting
- Era
- 20th century (1910–1915)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- gold, cream & beige
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- living room, study or library, dining room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, anniversary, her, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
