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Ernst Klimt (3 January 1864 in Vienna – 9 December 1892 in Vienna) was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter.
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Given the heights to which he would rise in the Viennese art world, Gustav Klimt's beginnings were hardly auspicious.

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Together with his brother Gustav Klimt and their fellow artist Franz Matsch, Ernst Klimt was among the most influential decorative painters in Vienna around 1900. The most important commissions they received with their artists’ collective, the “Künstler-Compagnie,” included the ceiling paintings for the Vienna Burgtheater and the spandrel paintings for the stairwell of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Ernst Klimt was born in Penzing near Vienna on 3 January 1864 as the third of seven children of the Bohemian gold engraver Ernest Klimt sen. and Anna Klimt (née Finster) from Vienna.

Like his brother Gustav, who was two years older than him, Ernst also had great artistic talent. Together, the brothers studied at the Imperial-Royal School of Arts and Crafts (now University of Applied Arts Vienna) of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (now MAK) from 1875. Their teachers included Michael Rieser, Ferdinand Julius Laufberger and Julius Victor Berger. During their studies the brothers met Franz Matsch. Encouraged by their teachers, the three talented young artists decided to collabor

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A painting by Ernst Klimt completed by his brother Gustav will be put up for auction

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"Hans Wurst Giving an Impromptu Performance in Rothenburg" is a version of a huge painting created from 1866 to 1868 by Ernst Klimt for the ceiling of the grand staircase of the Vienna Burgtheater. He began an easel version in 1892, but died in December of that year aged 29 of heart disease. In memory of his brother, Gustav completed the painting.

In her memoirs about the life of Gustav Klimt, his sister Hermina mentioned that it was not easy for him to finish the painting. The artist despaired every time he got to work.

Hans Wurst Giving an Impromptu Performance in Rothenburg by Ernst and Gustav Klimt

Together with the Austrian artist Franz Mach, Ernst Klimt founded the firm Künstler-Compagnie and received a number of prestigious commissions. In particular, ten works on the theme of theater history were commissioned by the Burgtheater. One of them depicted Hans Wurst, a traditional comic character in German-language theater.

Ernst later painted a reduce

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Ernst Klimt

Austrian painter (1864–1892)

Ernst Klimt (3 January 1864 in Vienna – 9 December 1892 in Vienna) was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter. He was a younger brother of the better-known artist Gustav Klimt.

Biography

He was the third of seven children born to the gold engraver, Ernst Klimt (1864–1892), originally from Bohemia, and was raised under very modest circumstances.

In 1877, aged only thirteen, he became a student at the University of Applied Arts, where his older brother, Gustav, had been studying for a year. They were both students of the decorative painter and engraver, Ferdinand Laufberger, and would become his assistants on several projects. He also introduced them to Hans Makart, who employed them for what is now known as the "Makart-Festzug [de]", celebrating the silver anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife, Elisabeth.

After Laufberger's death, in 1881 he, Gustav, and their friend from school, Franz Matsch, founded the "Künstler-Compagnie" and, two years later, opened their own studio. Among o