Death and Life ☲ Klimt ☷ Art Print ocean Light from the diner illuminates

Light from the diner illuminates a dark and deserted street

le soir) when it was first exhibited in 1891

It is suggested that Rembrandt based this scene on his father’s mill outside Leiden

It reads: Johannes de eyck fuit hic 1434 (Jan van Eyck was here)

is "No one is so much a fool as a willful fool

Death and Life ☲ Klimt ☷ Art Print ocean Light from the diner illuminatesDeath and Life (1915) by Gustav Klimt is regarded as one of his greatest allegories he described it as his most important figurative work. A menacing Grim Reaper with cudgel watches over a vibrant display of all stages of life, including a mother and child, an old woman, and a loving couple. Both death and life are adorned with colorful art nouveau mosaics. Death may claim one from life, but life itself eludes its grasp.