Gustav Klimt Quilt

Gustav Klimt was born July 14, 1862, Vienna, Austria—died Feb. 6, 1918, in Vienna.   He is best known as an Austrian painter and founder of the school of painting known as the Vienna Sezession.  He painted in the art nouveau style and added gold leaf to many of his beautiful paintings.

Forth grade students drew a self-portrait and covered themselves with quilt after quilt throughout the rest of the page.  Some students chose to include family members, favorite pets, or stuffed friends in their bed with them.

Inspired by the intricate detailed works of Klimt, students used the principles of line design to fill in each quilt section with thin, thick, wavy, and jagged lines as well as geometric shapes.  They traced over their designs with black sharpies and filled in their compositions with water color paints.   They are currently burrowing down for the winter near the fourth grade classrooms.