Shop art print and framed art On Lake Attersee by Gustav Klimt

At the centre of the composition is a woman in a green jacket, whose half-turned silhouette, cut at an angle, divides the canvas into two vertical sections. In the middle ground, under the canopy of trees, two couples, a man and a woman, walk along the river, leaning against the parapet. The branches are bent almost at right angles to each other and the painting is adapted from a painting treatise, based on a compilation of the theoretical works of Leonardo da Vinci. ""Macke studied the treatise during his stay in Berlin in 1907-1908, when he was a student of Lovis Corinth. The houses on either side of the river have simplified shapes, with the mountains in the distance represented by triangles. This reduction of familiar objects to simple geometric forms was characteristic of early Cubism, particularly the work of [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the symbolism style.

 

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