Cottage Garden with Sunflowers
Sunflowers and dahlias, marigolds, asters, and flame flowers. In this work, Klimt more than lives up to his reputation as the “artist of eternal flowering.” Against a backdrop of verdant green, he has filled the picture plane with a vibrant sea of flowers. This abundant, vivid array stirs memories of a radiant summer day. It transports us to a dream world beyond space and time, where flowers and leaves never wilt. One typical characteristic of Klimt’s landscape paintings is their square format. In order to find the perfect section of a scene, the painter used a viewfinder. “This is a hole cut into a piece of cardboard,” he explained in a letter to his lover Mizzi Zimmermann.
1906
Oil on canvas
110.0 x 110.0cm
3685
Image © Belvedere, Vienna, 2024
Where you'll find this
Upper Belvedere
Permanent collection