All of Klimt’s drawings will be categorized on this site according to the catalogue raisonné in the volumes I-IV of ‘Die Zeichnungen’ by Alice Strobl, and taken over by Dr. Marian Bisanz-Prakken.
Die Zeichnungen (‘The Drawings’)
Since the early 1960s, the ALBERTINA museum in Vienna has been dedicated to studying Gustav Klimt’s complete collection of drawings. This work has gone hand-in-hand with many exhibitions and publications.
The project began with art historian Alice Strobl, who published a three-volume catalogue titled “Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen” between 1980 and 1984. In 1989, she added a fourth volume with updates. Altogether, these books documented and described over 3,900 drawings in chronological order—a groundbreaking achievement.
All 4 volumes of ‘Die Zeichnungen’ by Alice Strobl,
In 1990, Strobl handed over the project to Marian Bisanz-Prakken, who had been her assistant since 1975. As a former curator at the ALBERTINA, Bisanz-Prakken continued the research, also after Strobl’s death in 2010, and was able to identify more than 500 additional drawings after Strobl’s last publication. Her expertise focuses on how Klimt’s drawings are attributed and categorized.
New discoveries are still being made, and each one is carefully studied and recorded for a future continuation of the catalogue.
I will add each drawing after a post has been made. This collection will serve as a database—and as a resource for anyone interested in Klimt’s art.
Drawings by Klimt according to ‘Die Zeichnungen’ (Click the image to view it in full size!)
Bust of a young girl with her head slightly inclined, 1879, s30Head study for the left figure of the ceiling painting ‘The Dance’ (1885) – Gustav Klimt, s132Head Study of a Reclining Young Man Facing Left, 1886-1888. s143Head of a Child, front, 1895, s261Standing Woman in Cape, Frontal View, 1895, s270Bust of a Smiling Girl, 1896, s274Portrait of a Woman, 1900Pregnant woman with man to the left, c. 1902, s274Female Nude Holding a Mirror, 1898, s349Girl Turned to the Left, her Face in a Three‑Quarter Profile to the Viewer, 1898, s365Viktoria from the Front, 1902, s770Female Head, Her Chin Resting in Her Hands, 1902, s798Female Head in Three-Quarter Profile to the Left, Study for “Lust” in the Beethoven Frieze, 1901, s810Crouched Female Nude Standing to the Right, 1902, s821Crouching Half‑Length Nude from the Front, 1902, s826Standing Nude Couple, Embracing, study for the Beethoven Frieze, 1901, s854Transfer Drawing for the Faculty painting ‘Jurisprudence’, 1903, s942Lovers, 1903, s963Study for Danaë, Seated Nude with Legs Drawn Up, 1903, s1003Crouching Female Nude with Drawn‑Up Legs, 1903, s1009Seated in an Armchair, Frontal View, Forearms Resting in Lap, 1903, s1085Seated Female Nude with Red Hair, Her Arms Crossed Above Her Head, 1907, s1631The Dancer, 1907, s1660Standing Female Figure with Raised Forearms to the Right, 1907/08, s1665Study for the Dancer of the Stoclet Frieze, 1909-1910, s1676Pregnant Woman Bending Forward, Embraced by a Man, 1904/05, s1751Seated Lady with Hat in Half Profile from the Left, 1907/08, s1918Portrait Sketch with High Hat and Reclining Woman, 1907/08, s1922Unclothed and Clothed Woman Standing Facing Left, 1907/1908, s1926Two Embracing Female Nudes, 1903/1904, s1937, sWoman’s Head with Closed Eyes, Facing Right, 1914, s2289Sleeping Half‑Length Nude, 1914-1915, s2410Recumbent Half Figure Nude facing Right, 1914/1915, s2418Bust of a Girl in Profile, 1915, s2633With Downcast Gaze, 1916, s2689Seated Semi-Nude with Scarf, 1917, s2844Lying Semi-Nude to the Right, 1916/17, s2946Reclining Half‑Nude with Spread Thighs, 1916-1917, d2968Male nude from the back, fingers crossed on the back of the head, 1879/1880, d3176Lady’s Bust Portrait from the Front, 1897-1898, s3318Nude of a Pregnant Woman Facing Left , 1903/04, s3508Seated Nude Turned to the Left, 1907, d3552Kneeling Woman (Study for Death and Life), 1912-1913, not In Strobl
