The world's most famous Austrian painter, and a man who spent fourteen consecutive summers at Attersee in the Salzkammergut. Gustav Klimt, co-founder of the Vienna Secession and supreme figure of Viennese Jugendstil, produced a remarkable series of landscape paintings at the lake between 1900 and 1916. These works stand apart from his gilded figure paintings in their calm, luminous observation of water, trees, and the Austrian countryside.
The Attersee landscapes are among the purest expressions of his painterly instinct, freed from the symbolic weight of his Viennese commissions. The Salzkammergut connection links the most famous Austrian painter directly to a destination already on every visitor's itinerary.