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1989, Austria. Proof Silver 500 Schilling "Gustav Klimt / Judith". PCGS PR69 DC!

Mint Year: 1989 Mint Place: Vienna Reference: KM-2987. Mintage: 88,000 pcs. Denomination: 500 Schilling Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as PR-69 DCAM! Material: Silver (.925) Diameter: 37mm Weight: 24gm

Judith and the Head of Holofernes (also known as Judith I, German: Judith und Holofernes) is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt created in 1901. It depicts the biblical character of Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes.

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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objet d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

Early in his artistic career, he was a successful painter of architectural decorations in a conventional manner. As he began to develop a more personal style, his work was the subject of controversy that culminated when the paintings he completed around 1900 for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna were criticized as pornographic. He subsequently accepted no more public commissions, but achieved a new success with the paintings of his "golden phase", many of which include gold leaf. Klimt's work was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.