Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches and other art objects. Klimt"s primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Klimt"s water women yield with sensuous abandon to the embraces of the waves, their natural element.