Description
During Klimt’s summer retreat in Litzlberg on Lake Attersee, Klimt started his days at 6 o’clock making long strolls in the woods. These landscapes constitute the only genre aside from figure painting that seriously interested Klimt. In recognition of his intensity, the locals called him Waldschrat or “forest demon”. He returned to Lake Attersee for 15 more summers until his death in 1918, creating more than 45 of his 50 landscapes in the tiny lakefront towns of Seewalchen, Litzlberg and Weissenbach. The original masterpiece was created around 1902. Today it has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection.
