this is Gustav Klimt
http://www.klimtgallery.org/biography.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/klimt/
born the 2nd child out of 7 kids he studied in the Vienna school or arts and crafts. to him the ideal, the decorative and the ritual are what formed the school Vienna Sezession. in this movement, you see a strong influence to decorated everything but at the same time you don't have any perspective, making most of the paintings flat, yet beautifully decorated and with incredible precision with the use of colour. unfortunately the school was unstable and dissolved by 1913.
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