| Timeline |
| 1862 |
Born 14 July in Baumgarten |
| 1876 |
Quits school, enrols at Bärgerschule, a local college of art and craft |
| 1883 |
Forms a partnership with his brother Ernst and another student, Franz Matsch - Klimt-Matsch & Co. |
| 1886 |
Begins commission of mural decorations for staircases at the Burgtheater and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna |
| 1891 |
He becomes a member of the Co-operative Society of Austrian Artists |
| 1893 |
Klimt and Matsch are commissioned to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the new University of Vienna |
| 1897 |
Co-founder and the first president the Austrian Art Nouveau group called the Vienna Secession |
| 1900 |
First painting for the University of Vienna, Philosophy is exhibited unfinished at the Paris World Fair and wins the Grand Prix |
| 1904 |
Is commissioned to paint the series of mosaic murals (1905-1909) for the Palais Stoclet |
| 1905 |
Withdraws from the Vienna Secession and forms a new association called "Kunstschau" |
| 1918 |
Dies 6 February from pneumonia |
| ~1878 |
Applies for and gains a place at the Kunstgewerbeschule (Arts and Crafts school), one of two Viennese public art schools |
