Gustav Klimt, Pigment & Pixel is a richly illustrated look beneath the surface of Gustav Klimt's legendary paintings, revealing insights into their process of creation and, using artificial intelligence, reconstructing Klimt's lost Faculty Paintings. How did Gustav Klimt create his legendary gold paintings?
The book is a catalogue accompanying the 2025 exhibition at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. It provides new insights into Klimt's working methods and artistic practice on the basis of recent technical analysis. It also presents a hypothetical reconstruction of the colours of his so-called Faculty Paintings. These monumental canvases depicting allegories of Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, commissioned for the ceiling of the Great Hall at the University of Vienna and destroyed in the Second World War, have been documented only in black-and-white photographs to date. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, their original colours have now been reconstructed using artificial intelligence.
Walter Konig, 162pp, 21cm x 31cm, illustrated paperback, 2025