Gustav Klimt . Pigment & Pixel

A richly illustrated look beneath the surface of Gustav Klimt's legendary paintings, revealing insights into their process of creation and, using artificial intelligence, reconstructing Klimt's lost Faculty Paintings.

How did Gustav Klimt create his legendary gold paintings? The catalogue offers new insights into his working methods and artistic practice on the basis of recent technical analysis. In addition, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna presents a hypothetical reconstruction of the colours of Klimt's so-called Faculty Paintings. These monumental canvases depicting allegories of Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence, commissioned for the ceiling of the Great Hall at the University of Vienna and destroyed in the Second World War, have been documented only in black-and-white photographs to date. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, their original colours have now been reconstructed using artificial intelligence.