Island in the Attersee Gris The disciple on the right

The disciple on the right spreads his arms

if the character's head is surrounded by a halo

The left part is dominated by red

a boating place on the island of Chatou

like a barely emerged Venus

Island in the Attersee Gris The disciple on the rightThe canvas represents the shores of Lake Attersee in Upper Austria (Litzlberg is a village and one of the islands in the lake). Painted a few years before his death and demonstrating a perfect mastery of color, the work is inspired by pointillism. Klimt painted more than fifty landscapes, especially at the end of his life, including several on the Attersee, on the banks of which he had spent almost all his summers since 1900.