1. Die Erfullung, 1909 -- 1000 pcs, Gustav Klimt
2. The Kiss -- 1000 pcs, Gustav Klimt
3. Three Stages of Life -- 1000 pcs, Gustav Klimt
4. Three Stages of Life -- 2000 pcs, Gustav Klimt
5. Young Girl or Jungfrau -- 1500 pcs, Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (1862--1918) was a leading representative of the movement known as Sezession, the Viennese version of Art Nouveau, of which he was co-founder in 1897. His work is a reflection of the erotic, psychological and aesthetic interests which characterised art and thought at the turn of the century.

Abandoning the historicism and naturalism of his early work in around 1898, Klimt's pictorial language underwent a process of exploration and innovation in which he fused the influence of Classical Greek, Byzantine and Egyptian art, late mediaeval painting and engravings of Albrecht Dürer, as well as photography and the symbolist work of Max Klinger. Synthesising these diverse sources, Klimt developed an eclectic, highly personal style, elegant and decorative, in which gold, silver and mosaics give form and colour to fabulous erotic compositions inhabited by sinuous figures and loaded with highly symbolic significance.

His femmes fatales embody the darker side of sexual attraction, a highly Freudian theme he developed in one of his best-known paintings, The Kiss, a reflection of the importance given to sexuality. Other recurrent themes of his work are love, regeneration and death. These last two are reflected in one of his allegorical late works, Death and Life (1916).

The range of Klimt's paintings included in the full Klimt collection here at JigBoxx covers the whole of this artist's most vital thematic concerns and contributions to the collective culture of the West.