Scarf - Klimt Flowers Faux Silk Square, 35.5 in

Klimt Flower Scarf: A Garden With No Horizon

This Klimt flower scarf covers a satin square with blossoms from edge to edge. Reds, oranges, magentas and purples crowd together, with touches of white and gold. As a floral art scarf it has no center and no wrong side up. It reads like a Klimt garden scarf made for tying and draping.

Gustav Klimt spent summers on the Attersee, a lake in Austria. There he painted flower gardens in the years around 1907. The Belvedere in Vienna holds Farm Garden with Sunflowers, painted in 1907. It shows how he worked.

Product Details

• Material: Satin polyester faux silk
• Finish: Satin, printed on one side
• Edges: Stitched
• Size: 35.5 in x 35.5 in (90 x 90 cm)
• Product number: EV1026

Looking Through a Square Frame

Klimt used a homemade square cardboard frame to pick views from nature. He chose close-ups. Flowers fill a narrow space and reach every edge. The close view removes depth, so the horizon and sky vanish.

The garden becomes a flat surface of ornament. A fellow painter compared Viennese painting of that time to painted carpets. A Klimt flower garden print on a square scarf suits that flat, ornamental look.

A Klimt flower scarf makes a bold accent for plain clothes. The Klimt garden scarf layers red, orange and purple in one print. The Klimt flower garden paintings leave the eye no place to rest. Each floral art scarf in satin catches light differently.

Wearing and Displaying the Scarf

Because the pattern runs in every direction, any fold looks right. Tie it at the neck, on a bag or in your hair. Keep it out of direct sunlight to protect the printed colors.

Hang the Klimt flower scarf flat to see the pattern run edge to edge. A floral art scarf like this suits spring and autumn alike. The Klimt flower scarf folds small for a bag. Fans of the Klimt flower garden series will find familiar color here. A Klimt garden scarf also makes a bright band for a hat.

More Klimt designs are in our Klimt, Mucha and Art Nouveau collection. For a matching accessory, see our tote bag collection.

Gustav Klimt and the Garden Paintings

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was the first president of the Vienna Secession. He is best known for golden portraits, yet he painted many landscapes and gardens. Some art historians see an early step toward abstraction in these flat, all-over flower pictures. They show his gift for pattern as clearly as his portraits do.

For More Reading from the Web

• Zoom into one of Klimt's flower gardens with the curators of the Belvedere. Zoom Into Klimt's Farm Garden with Sunflowers - Belvedere on Google Arts and Culture