This image, taken using the Lumiere autochrome technique, shows Gustav Klimt at Attersee, Austria, circa 1910
Gustav Klimt holding one of his cats, in front of his Viennese studio at Josefstaedter Strasse in 1912
A detail from Beethoven Frieze I, 1901-2, from an ambitious cycle of wall paintings created for an exhibition on the composer at the Sezession in Vienna
Another detail from the Beethoven Frieze, Klimt's attempt to turn art into music
The main hall of the Sezession exhibition in 1903, with interior design by Kolo Moser. On the left is Klimt's Medicine, one of three paintings rejected by Vienna University and destroyed by fire in 1945
Portrait of Hermine Gallia, 1904. The sitter, the wife of a patron of the arts, wears a dress designed by Klimt
Portrait of Eugenia Primavesi from 1913. Klimt knew the sitter well, perhaps explaining the more naturalistic style of the portrait
'If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad