A framed painting by Gustav Klimt entitled "Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer".

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 to February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna in Austria Hungary, the second of seven children, three boys and four girls. He revered Vienna's foremost history painter of the time, Hans Makart. Klimt readily accepted the principles of a conservative training and his early work may be classified as academic.