{"version":2,"name":"Farm Garden with Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt (1907)","paintingName":"Farm Garden with Sunflowers","artist":"Gustav Klimt","date":"1907","artistProfile":{"artistName":"Gustav Klimt","name":"Gustav Klimt","description":"Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918). Their work is associated with Symbolism; Art Nouveau; Jugendstil. Their recorded places of work include Vienna; Brussels-Capital Region; Florence; Ravenna; Venice; London.","kind":"person","birthDate":"1862","deathDate":"1918","activeDates":null,"nationality":"Austrian Empire; Cisleithania","birthPlace":"Baumgarten; Vienna","deathPlace":"Altes AKH; Vienna; Alsergrund","attributionNote":null,"portrait":{"imagePath":"/print-assets/2b120e5003400dfca5679ca81361dc7456ff93d591554d481ff578a87a8d82aa-preview.jpg","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klimt.jpg","portraitCreator":"Josef Anton Trčka","licenseName":"Public domain","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","depictionNote":"Artist portrait"},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata: Gustav Klimt","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34661"}]},"artistUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive?artist=Gustav%20Klimt","medium":"Oil on canvas","dimensions":"110 × 110 cm (43.3 × 43.3 in)","location":"Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria","period":"Vienna Secession / Symbolism","culture":"Austria","canonicalUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/farm-garden-with-sunflowers-gustav-klimt-1907","imageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/4dcf4351f65f3a265655457ca59a3de4cd28d7d28900330616e28c79177058d6-preview.jpg","highestResolutionImageUrl":"https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/4dcf4351f65f3a265655457ca59a3de4cd28d7d28900330616e28c79177058d6.png","imageTitle":"Farm Garden with Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt (1907) | High-resolution image","imageRights":null,"publishedUtc":"2026-10-16T23:20:05.9372236+00:00","summary":"Gustav Klimt's 'Farm Garden with Sunflowers' of 1907 is a square canvas packed with blossoms, painted near Lake Attersee. The record confirms the title, artist, date, medium, dimensions and Belvedere collection, and names a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee as the subject. It does not supply a detailed visual description, so this tour stays close to what the sources establish and what the square canvas itself shows.","text":"Gustav Klimt painted this farm garden in 1907. The German record also calls it a garden with sunflowers in the country, and it names a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee as the place depicted.\n\nSunflowers give the picture its name. Around them, the garden is a dense field of blossoms rather than a view with a horizon.\n\nThe square format and the close, packed planting make the flowers the subject, not the landscape around them. That is the key to everything that follows.\n\nLook first at how little empty space there is. The canvas fills almost edge to edge with leaves, stems and petals, so the eye has no road, no sky and no distant hill to rest on.\n\nThat fullness is the painting's structure. Where a traditional landscape organises space with depth, this one organises it as a surface of overlapping shapes.\n\nThe sunflowers rise above the lower flowers, but they do not stand apart. They are woven into the same mass, with the same brushwork.\n\nThe record identifies the subject as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. This is a working place, not a palace park.\n\nA garden like that is planted for use and for produce. Flowers grow among the crops and the paths, and the result is an untidy abundance rather than a designed display.\n\nThe title also appears as 'Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande', a garden with sunflowers in the country. That wording keeps the setting rural and plain.\n\nKlimt worked in Vienna and on summer visits to the Austrian countryside. This canvas belongs to a body of garden and landscape pictures he made away from the city.\n\nThe focus stays on what is growing. There are no figures, no buildings and no narrative incident in the subject record.\n\nSo the painting asks you to look at cultivation itself: flowers, order and abundance, held on a square surface. That is an interpretation of the subject, supported by the title and setting.\n\nIn a garden like this, you do not separate the sunflowers from the poppies or the daisies, and the painting follows that experience. The blossoms crowd and overlap.\n\nThe square format reinforces it. A square has no top or bottom pull, no broad foreground to walk into, so the garden reads as a continuous pattern.\n\nThis is where the picture becomes almost abstract: not because the flowers are unrecognisable, but because the pattern matters as much as the individual plant.\n\nWhat you take away is a garden at Litzlberg am Attersee, painted by Klimt in 1907 as a square field of flowers. The record gives the place and the date, and the canvas gives the abundance.\n\nThe sunflowers name the work, but the whole surface carries it: leaves, petals and stems held together without a horizon.\n\nThat is the understanding the painting offers. Not a view of a garden, but the garden itself, seen close enough that it becomes a pattern of colour and growth.","passages":[{"id":"passage-1","role":"hook","evidence":"documented","text":"Gustav Klimt painted this farm garden in 1907. The German record also calls it a garden with sunflowers in the country, and it names a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee as the place depicted.\n\nSunflowers give the picture its name. Around them, the garden is a dense field of blossoms rather than a view with a horizon.\n\nThe square format and the close, packed planting make the flowers the subject, not the landscape around them. That is the key to everything that follows.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-2","role":"looking","evidence":"observation","text":"Look first at how little empty space there is. The canvas fills almost edge to edge with leaves, stems and petals, so the eye has no road, no sky and no distant hill to rest on.\n\nThat fullness is the painting's structure. Where a traditional landscape organises space with depth, this one organises it as a surface of overlapping shapes.\n\nThe sunflowers rise above the lower flowers, but they do not stand apart. They are woven into the same mass, with the same brushwork.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-3","role":"context","evidence":"documented","text":"The record identifies the subject as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. This is a working place, not a palace park.\n\nA garden like that is planted for use and for produce. Flowers grow among the crops and the paths, and the result is an untidy abundance rather than a designed display.\n\nThe title also appears as 'Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande', a garden with sunflowers in the country. That wording keeps the setting rural and plain.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-4","role":"context","evidence":"interpretation","text":"Klimt worked in Vienna and on summer visits to the Austrian countryside. This canvas belongs to a body of garden and landscape pictures he made away from the city.\n\nThe focus stays on what is growing. There are no figures, no buildings and no narrative incident in the subject record.\n\nSo the painting asks you to look at cultivation itself: flowers, order and abundance, held on a square surface. That is an interpretation of the subject, supported by the title and setting.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-5","role":"turn","evidence":"interpretation","text":"In a garden like this, you do not separate the sunflowers from the poppies or the daisies, and the painting follows that experience. The blossoms crowd and overlap.\n\nThe square format reinforces it. A square has no top or bottom pull, no broad foreground to walk into, so the garden reads as a continuous pattern.\n\nThis is where the picture becomes almost abstract: not because the flowers are unrecognisable, but because the pattern matters as much as the individual plant.","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"passage-6","role":"closing","evidence":"interpretation","text":"What you take away is a garden at Litzlberg am Attersee, painted by Klimt in 1907 as a square field of flowers. The record gives the place and the date, and the canvas gives the abundance.\n\nThe sunflowers name the work, but the whole surface carries it: leaves, petals and stems held together without a horizon.\n\nThat is the understanding the painting offers. Not a view of a garden, but the garden itself, seen close enough that it becomes a pattern of colour and growth.","sourceIds":["source-1"]}],"sources":[{"id":"source-1","title":"Wikimedia Commons: Farm Garden with Sunflowers","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt,_1907,_Farm_Garden_with_Sunflowers,_%C3%96sterreichische_Galerie_Belvedere.jpg","publisher":"Wikimedia Commons","sourceType":"secondary","publicationTitle":"Institutional record for Farm Garden with Sunflowers","language":"en","annotation":"A duplicate record of the same Commons file, providing the same object information including title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, collection and accession number.","accessStatus":"open_access","consultationStatus":"partially_consulted","relevance":"artwork"},{"id":"book-ol28481141m","title":"Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28481141M","publisher":"TASCHEN","sourceType":"book","authors":["Tobias G. Natter"],"publicationYear":2015,"isbn":"9783836527958","annotation":"Recorded as 'Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings' by Tobias G. Natter with subjects including painting, Catalogues raisonnes, and criticism and interpretation. A complete paintings catalogue raisonne would be the most likely candidate to document an individual painted work such as Farm Garden with Sunflowers within Klimt's painted oeuvre. Selection rests on the catalogued title and subject headings only, not on examination of the contents.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"},{"id":"book-ol22139610m","title":"Gustav Klimt","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22139610M","publisher":"Artline","sourceType":"book","authors":["Klimt, Gustav"],"publicationYear":1988,"isbn":"1871487064","annotation":"Scholarly Klimt monograph by Alessandra Comini whose recorded subjects include Landscape in art, Landscapes in art, landscape painting, Catalogues raisonnes, and criticism and interpretation. Because the artwork is a landscape, these subject headings make it the strongest candidate for object-specific landscape discussion and art-historical context. Relevance is inferred from the catalogue record alone.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"},{"id":"book-ol7998239m","title":"Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making","url":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7998239M","publisher":"Harry N. Abrams","sourceType":"book","authors":["Gustav Klimt"],"publicationYear":2001,"isbn":"9780810935242","annotation":"An exhibition-related Klimt title (catalogued with Exhibitions, Catalogs, Art, exhibitions, and Austrian art subjects) that may include documented display and reception of Klimt paintings. Included for its exhibition and catalogue subject headings and the possibility of documented cultural reception, not as a verified source for this painting specifically.","consultationStatus":"not_yet_consulted"}],"history":"Gustav Klimt painted this farm garden in 1907. The German record also calls it a garden with sunflowers in the country, and it names a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee as the place depicted.\n\nSunflowers give the picture its name. Around them, the garden is a dense field of blossoms rather than a view with a horizon.\n\nThe square format and the close, packed planting make the flowers the subject, not the landscape around them. That is the key to everything that follows.\n\nLook first at how little empty space there is. The canvas fills almost edge to edge with leaves, stems and petals, so the eye has no road, no sky and no distant hill to rest on.\n\nThat fullness is the painting's structure. Where a traditional landscape organises space with depth, this one organises it as a surface of overlapping shapes.\n\nThe sunflowers rise above the lower flowers, but they do not stand apart. They are woven into the same mass, with the same brushwork.\n\nThe record identifies the subject as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. This is a working place, not a palace park.\n\nA garden like that is planted for use and for produce. Flowers grow among the crops and the paths, and the result is an untidy abundance rather than a designed display.\n\nThe title also appears as 'Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande', a garden with sunflowers in the country. That wording keeps the setting rural and plain.\n\nKlimt worked in Vienna and on summer visits to the Austrian countryside. This canvas belongs to a body of garden and landscape pictures he made away from the city.\n\nThe focus stays on what is growing. There are no figures, no buildings and no narrative incident in the subject record.\n\nSo the painting asks you to look at cultivation itself: flowers, order and abundance, held on a square surface. That is an interpretation of the subject, supported by the title and setting.\n\nIn a garden like this, you do not separate the sunflowers from the poppies or the daisies, and the painting follows that experience. The blossoms crowd and overlap.\n\nThe square format reinforces it. A square has no top or bottom pull, no broad foreground to walk into, so the garden reads as a continuous pattern.\n\nThis is where the picture becomes almost abstract: not because the flowers are unrecognisable, but because the pattern matters as much as the individual plant.\n\nWhat you take away is a garden at Litzlberg am Attersee, painted by Klimt in 1907 as a square field of flowers. The record gives the place and the date, and the canvas gives the abundance.\n\nThe sunflowers name the work, but the whole surface carries it: leaves, petals and stems held together without a horizon.\n\nThat is the understanding the painting offers. Not a view of a garden, but the garden itself, seen close enough that it becomes a pattern of colour and growth.","sections":[],"facts":[],"referenceSections":[{"id":"identity","title":"Identity and creation","entries":[{"text":"This painting is 'Farm Garden with Sunflowers' (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen) by Gustav Klimt, dated 1907, oil on canvas.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The painting measures 110 × 110 cm (43.3 × 43.3 in).","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The German title variant is 'Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande', with a note describing it as a brewery garden in Litzlberg am Attersee.","kind":"identity","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"visual-evidence","title":"Looking and visual evidence","entries":[{"text":"The painting's file description does not contain a detailed visual description of the scene; it identifies the work as a landscape painting depicting a farm garden with sunflowers.","kind":"visual_observation","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"materials-technique","title":"Materials and technique","entries":[{"text":"The painting is a landscape painting in oil on canvas.","kind":"materials_technique","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"text":"The painting is executed in oil on canvas.","kind":"materials_technique","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"context","title":"Subject and historical context","entries":[{"text":"Gustav Klimt lived from 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918 and worked in Vienna and other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London, with a work period of 1877 to 1918.","kind":"historical_context","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"provenance","title":"Provenance","entries":[{"text":"The painting was photographed in 2018 for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere by Johannes Stoll, but this is a photography credit and not a provenance record.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"collection","title":"Collection and display","entries":[{"text":"The painting is held in the collection of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, with accession number 3685.","kind":"collection","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]},{"id":"values","title":"Documented values and qualified estimates","entries":[{"text":"Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Estimated value: US$500K to US$2M Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: Broad conservative working range for manual review, calculated from confirmed contextual factors only: Gustav Klimt, Farm Garden with Sunflowers (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen), 1907, oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm, accession number 3685, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. The range reflects Klimt's major status in Vienna Secession and Symbolism, the fully confirmed attribution, the iconic square garden composition, and the painting's long-term institutional collection context. No public insurance valuation, auction price, appraisal, or sale record for this work was supplied. The range is intentionally wide and below top-market Klimt levels, using the confirmed institutional and public-domain context as a moderate factor. This is not a market comparable analysis. Qualification: This is a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. No comparable sales, private insurance records, or official valuations were consulted. Verify with a qualified appraiser and insurer before any coverage or financial decision.","kind":"calculated_insurance","sourceIds":["source-1"]}]}],"archiveResearch":{"catalogueFields":[{"id":"artwork-title","label":"Title","value":"Farm Garden with Sunflowers","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"artist","label":"Artist or attribution","value":"Gustav Klimt","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"date","label":"Object date","value":"1907","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"medium","label":"Medium and support","value":"Oil on canvas","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"dimensions","label":"Dimensions","value":"110 × 110 cm (43.3 × 43.3 in)","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"current-location","label":"Current collection or location","value":"Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"movement-or-period","label":"Movement or period","value":"Vienna Secession / Symbolism","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"country-or-culture","label":"Country or culture","value":"Austria","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"subject-summary","label":"Depicted subject","value":"A densely woven flower garden painted near Lake Attersee, filled with sunflowers, red poppies, daisies and other blossoms that form an almost abstract field of colour.","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"title-variants","label":"Title variants","value":"Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen; Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande","sourceIds":["source-1"]},{"id":"accession-number","label":"Accession number","value":"3685","sourceIds":[]},{"id":"support","label":"Support","value":"Canvas","sourceIds":[]}],"claims":[{"id":"archive-ba35b4f306f345f2d5c7","sectionId":"identity","text":"The catalogue record identifies this canvas as Farm Garden with Sunflowers, with the German title Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen, attributed to Gustav Klimt and dated 1907. The same record specifies the medium as oil on canvas and gives the dimensions as 110 × 110 cm (43.3 × 43.3 in), a square format. This is the core identity of the object as the institutional record supplies it: a named work, a named artist, a single year, a stated technique and a stated size. The title variant 'Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande', a garden with sunflowers in the country, is also recorded, and a note attached to that variant describes the place depicted as a brewery garden in Litzlberg am Attersee. The record therefore holds two German wordings and one English title for the same object, and the place-name enters the identity of the work through the title apparatus rather than through a separate provenance document cited here.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identity","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Title"}]},{"id":"archive-4631ce350fea49b83b34","sectionId":"identity","text":"The evidence confirms that this is a landscape painting in oil on canvas, held in the collection of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, with accession number 3685. The file description does not contain a detailed visual description of the scene; it identifies the work as a landscape painting depicting a farm garden with sunflowers. That distinction matters for how the object can be described from this record. The title, the medium, the dimensions, the collection and the accession number are documented catalogue facts. A close account of what the canvas actually shows, edge to edge, is not established by the file description itself and must not be treated as if the record had supplied it. The place association at Litzlberg am Attersee likewise reaches the record through the title variant and its note, so it is a catalogue-level identification of the setting, not an independent confirmation of the site.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Catalogue identity","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Title"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-781cd97222c8224e8511","sectionId":"identity","text":"The object date and the later catalogue dates belong to different orders of fact. The painting is dated 1907. The photograph of the work was taken in 2018 for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere by Johannes Stoll. The 2018 date is a photography credit attached to the digital file, and the evidence explicitly states that this is not a provenance record. It cannot be read as a date of creation, an acquisition, a transfer or an exhibition. The accession number 3685 belongs to the museum's catalogue apparatus and is likewise not a date. Keeping these apart is necessary because a square canvas measuring 110 × 110 cm carries the date 1907, while the image file carries the date 2018, and only the first of these is a claim about the making of the painting.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object date and catalogue date","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-1910ffb45367447d435a","sectionId":"identity","text":"Gustav Klimt lived from 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918, and he worked in Vienna and in other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London, with a work period given as 1877 to 1918. Against that biography, a painting dated 1907 falls in the later middle of his active career, roughly two decades after the start of the documented work period and about eleven years before his death. The record names Vienna among the places where he worked, which is consistent with the museum in Vienna that holds the canvas. The record does not, by itself, establish the particular circumstances of this painting's making, and the title note placing a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee is a different kind of statement from the artist's biographical range. The biography fixes the painter in time and in a network of places; the garden title names a rural site within the German-speaking countryside, and the two facts sit together without one establishing the other.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Artist and period","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Title"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"}]},{"id":"archive-478d737d750e22e75455","sectionId":"identity","text":"Read together, the units establish a compact but specific object: a square oil on canvas, 110 × 110 cm, titled Farm Garden with Sunflowers or Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen, with the variant Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande and a note identifying a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee, attributed to Gustav Klimt and dated 1907, held at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere under accession number 3685. The artist's dates, 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918, and his documented work period of 1877 to 1918 frame the year 1907 within a career that included Vienna and travel to Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London. The 2018 photograph by Johannes Stoll belongs to the museum's imaging history of the work and is expressly not a provenance record. What the catalogue does not supply here is a provenance chain, an acquisition history, a detailed visual description, or any account of pigments and treatments. Those absences define the limits of this section rather than diminishing the object, because the title, place note, medium, dimensions, collection and accession number already locate a specific square painting in a specific museum, at a specific moment in Klimt's career, and connect it to a working garden in the countryside.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Artist and period","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"File information"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Title"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-cb74f0292e5b81fbb3c8","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"The institutional record for Farm Garden with Sunflowers states a single physical identity for the work on two separate grounds: it is a landscape painting in oil on canvas, and it is executed in oil on canvas. Both statements come from the same Commons file record and its object-type and medium fields, so they are not independent examinations but a consistent cataloguing of medium and support. What the record establishes, therefore, is the material class of the object: a canvas support carrying oil paint, presented within the genre of landscape. It does not record the weave or thread count of the canvas, the ground or priming layer, the presence or absence of a preparatory drawing under the paint, the pigments used, or any conservation treatment. Those are absent from the supplied evidence and should not be inferred from the medium statement alone. The material description is best treated as a documentary baseline against which any future technical examination could be measured, rather than as a report of such an examination.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented materials","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object type; Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Medium"}]},{"id":"archive-0948f39b53ff782e57c2","sectionId":"materials-technique","text":"Read together, the supplied units establish only two documented material facts about the object: oil paint and a canvas support. The context unit adds that the file description is sparse at the level of visual detail, and the primary units give no further material data. The result is a material profile that is exact about its medium and silent about everything beneath and within it. Within the larger history of materials, this is a consequential limitation: a century of investigation into how such pictures were built has rested on exactly the kinds of evidence that this record does not contain. The archive can therefore state with confidence that the painting is an oil on canvas and that it is catalogued as a landscape of a farm garden, while keeping open, and clearly marked as open, every question of preparation, layering, pigment and technique. Where the evidence stops, the account stops.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented materials","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object type; Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"}]},{"id":"fact-collection-1","sectionId":"collection","text":"The object under discussion is a landscape painting in oil on canvas by Gustav Klimt, held in the collection of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria, under accession number 3685. The institutional record identifies it as Farm Garden with Sunflowers (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen), dated 1907, with a square format measuring 110 by 110 cm (43.3 by 43.3 in). A German title variant also appears in the record, Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande, that is, a garden with sunflowers in the country, with an accompanying note that describes the site depicted as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. The record is explicit that its file description contains no detailed visual description of the scene; it identifies the work as a landscape painting depicting a farm garden with sunflowers and stops there. That qualification matters for any account of the picture, because the descriptive and interpretive work of characterizing the planted surface has to be distinguished from what the documentation itself asserts.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Institutional Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact-collection-1-2","sectionId":"collection","text":"Klimt's biography, as given in the same record, places him between 14 July 1862 and 6 February 1918, with a documented work period running from 1877 to 1918 and activity in Vienna alongside other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London. The record's date of 1907 for this canvas therefore falls late in that working life, within the period of his mature output. The picture's medium is recorded as oil on canvas, and its square dimensions are given consistently across the duplicate Commons record of the same file, which supplies the same title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, collection and accession number. The consultation status of the source is partial, so these institutional facts should be treated as the stable core of the account rather than a complete catalogue entry.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Institutional Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact-collection-1-3","sectionId":"collection","text":"One recorded fact that does not belong to the object's history of making, ownership or display is a photography credit: the painting was photographed in 2018 for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere by Johannes Stoll. The record itself flags that this is a photography credit and not a provenance record, and it should not be folded into a chain of ownership or exhibition history. It is nonetheless useful context for how the work circulates as a reproducible image today, since the representation through which most viewers encounter the canvas was produced under the holding institution's auspices well after Klimt's death.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Institutional Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact-collection-1-4","sectionId":"collection","text":"Taken together, the documentation establishes a specific, located object rather than a generic garden type: a 1907 oil on canvas, square at 110 cm, accessioned as 3685 in Vienna, associated by its German title and record note with a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee and titled alternately as a farm garden with sunflowers or a garden with sunflowers in the country. The title variants and the site note are the record's way of anchoring the picture in a rural, working setting, while the collection and accession number anchor it institutionally. Within a larger history of art and material culture, that double anchoring is what allows the painting to be discussed both as an artefact with a documented institutional life and as an image whose subject is cultivation itself, with the documentation supplying the where, when, medium and holder, and the canvas supplying the abundance that the record declines to describe in detail.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Object and Institutional Record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Collection; Accession number"}]},{"id":"fact-identity-5","sectionId":"context","text":"Gustav Klimt, who lived from 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918, worked in Vienna and in other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London; the record of his activity gives a work period running from 1877 to 1918. Within that long career, the painting held by the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is dated 1907 and is catalogued under accession number 3685. Its German title variant is given as \"Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande\", and the file also carries a note describing the depicted place as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. The English-language record presents it as \"Farm Garden with Sunflowers\" (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen), painted in oil on canvas and measuring 110 × 110 cm (43.3 × 43.3 in). These are the documented particulars of identity and medium that anchor any discussion of circumstance: the maker, his working dates and places, the year of the canvas, the collection that holds it, and the two title forms under which it is known.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented identity and the limits of the record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"}]},{"id":"archive-afdf96b27430ce8a4aec","sectionId":"context","text":"The supplied records establish the artist's biography, the title variants, the place name Litzlberg am Attersee, the date 1907, the medium of oil on canvas, the square dimensions and the present collection and accession number, but they do not document a commission, a purchaser, a first owner, an exhibition history or a date of acquisition by the Belvedere. The brewery garden note is a place identification attached to a German title variant; it is not, on this record, accompanied by a patron's name or a contract. The source material therefore supports a secure identification of the work while leaving the commissioning and early ownership history open, and the distinction matters: knowing what the picture is and where it now rests does not settle who asked for it or why it was made.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented identity and the limits of the record","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-636fd37e38b9779cf91c","sectionId":"context","text":"Read together, the evidence allows a cautious link between the documented circumstances of Klimt's working life and the object's formal character, but only a cautious one. Klimt's recorded activity spans Vienna and other locations, and his work period runs from 1877 to 1918, so a canvas of 1907 belongs to a mature phase of a career conducted partly outside the city. The records name Litzlberg am Attersee as the place depicted and class the image as a landscape showing a farm garden with sunflowers; the square 110 × 110 cm oil format is documented. What the supplied units do not do is describe the canvas's internal composition, its crowding of blossoms, its absence of horizon or its brushwork. Those formal qualities are not established here, so the connection between the rural setting and any particular way of organising the picture surface remains an inference rather than a documented fact.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Setting, career and the question of formal connection","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-66e86a5e23f75c2929f3","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The institutional record for Farm Garden with Sunflowers supplies the object's basic physical facts and, just as importantly, the limits of what it documents. The work is recorded as a landscape painting in oil on canvas, catalogued with the object type and medium given in those terms. Its title is Farm Garden with Sunflowers, with the German variant Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande, a note that describes the depicted site as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee. The record further notes that the file description contains no detailed visual description of the scene; it identifies the work only as a landscape painting depicting a farm garden with sunflowers. That absence matters for this section, because it means the scene's compositional details must be drawn from the transcript's account and from the object itself rather than from catalogued description. The photograph of the work was taken in 2018 for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere by Johannes Stoll, a photography credit rather than a provenance record, so it establishes the date and agency of the image, not the history of the painting.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The record and its limits","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Medium"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object type; Medium"}]},{"id":"archive-8edf5e6a70201924daaa","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The one point on which the record speaks directly about subject matter is the identification of the setting: a farm garden, German variant Garten mit Sonnenblumen auf dem Lande, described as a brewery garden in Litzlberg am Attersee. That wording is a landscape identification rather than a scene description, so it should be treated as the record's attribution of place. The title itself carries the sunflower as the named element and the rural, country garden as the setting, while the note about the brewery garden locates the planting within a working landscape at Litzlberg am Attersee. The evidence does not describe figures, buildings, paths or narrative incident, and no element of the record supports reading a story into the scene. What the title and the note together establish is a cultivated rural garden in which sunflowers are prominent enough to name the painting.","kind":"observation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The record and its limits","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"}]},{"id":"fact-visual-1","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"Because the file description stops short of a visual account, the composition is best approached from what the object itself presents and what the record leaves open. The transcript describes a canvas that fills almost edge to edge with leaves, stems and petals, with no road, no sky and no distant hill to organise recession. Where a traditional landscape establishes depth through a single vanishing point and a view into distance, this picture is described as organising space as a surface of overlapping shapes, with the sunflowers rising above the lower flowers yet woven into the same mass rather than standing apart in a distinct plane. The square format reinforces that reading: a square has no top or bottom pull, so the garden reads as a continuous pattern. This is a description of visual arrangement supported by the title and setting, not a documented fact of the record, which contains no detailed visual description.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Composition without a horizon","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"}]},{"id":"archive-2fae0bf06743d4a26ab1","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The square format and the absence of a horizon are structural choices rather than incidental ones. With the flowers crowding and overlapping, the picture is described as merging sunflowers with the surrounding poppies and daisies into one continuous field, so that no individual plant dominates the surface. The result is that abundance, order and cultivation itself become the subject rather than a view of landscape around a garden. The record's title and the brewery-garden note support this reading of subject, but the specific claim that the pattern matters as much as the individual plant is an interpretation of the visible arrangement rather than a catalogued fact.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Composition without a horizon","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Object type; Medium"}]},{"id":"archive-5896c1499b09194ee7d3","sectionId":"visual-evidence","text":"The matter of what the picture depicts is a place where observation, identification and attribution need to be kept apart. The record identifies the subject as a brewery garden at Litzlberg am Attersee and calls the work a farm garden with sunflowers; both are the record's naming of the scene. The file description itself contains no detailed visual description, so the fuller account of the garden as a dense mass of blossoms, and its reading as the garden itself rather than a view of a garden, remains an interpretation of the painting supported by the title and the identified setting. Klimt's authorship and the 1907 date are attributed through the record rather than independently demonstrated in the evidence, and the painter's long working period and wide travel do not by themselves fix the circumstances of this canvas.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Artist and period context","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Summary"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Medium"}]},{"id":"fact-provenance-1","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The documented ownership record for this painting is remarkably thin, and that thinness is itself a finding worth stating precisely. The work is held in the collection of the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria, under accession number 3685, and it is identified as Farm Garden with Sunflowers (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen) by Gustav Klimt, dated 1907, oil on canvas, measuring 110 by 110 centimeters. The institutional record supplies the current repository and its identifying number but does not narrate how the canvas reached that repository, so no earlier owner, dealer, agent, sale or transfer can be reconstructed from the supplied evidence. What the record does establish is the endpoint of the chain: the painting is a Belvedere object bearing a specific accession number, and any account of its earlier movement would have to come from documentation not present here.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented Ownership and Its Limits","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"fact-provenance-1-2","sectionId":"provenance","text":"One element of the record is easily mistaken for provenance and should be separated from it explicitly. The painting was photographed in 2018 for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere by Johannes Stoll. This is a photography credit attached to the reproduction, not a provenance record: it documents who made an image of the canvas in the twenty-first century, not who owned or handled the canvas at any point in its history. The distinction matters because a dated photographic credit can read, in a bare metadata list, like a dated event in an object's life. Here it is an event in the reproduction's life, and it leaves the ownership history untouched. The same caution applies to the record's other metadata: a file description, a title, a medium statement and a collection statement describe the object and its custodian but do not by themselves prove a sequence of owners.","kind":"provenance","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented Ownership and Its Limits","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"fact-provenance-1-3","sectionId":"provenance","text":"Because the supplied record documents only the present holding, the correct formulation is that there is an unrecorded interval, not a proven change of ownership. Absent acquisition dates, dealer names, auction lots, gift or bequest language, or loan and exhibition history, nothing in the evidence supports a claim that the painting passed through particular hands before reaching the Belvedere, nor a claim that it did not. An unrecorded interval is silence in the documentation; a proven change of ownership requires an instrument that names the parties and the transfer. The evidence here contains no such instrument, so the provenance section can state the repository, the accession number and the 2018 photographic credit, and must stop there. Filling the gap with a plausible Viennese collector narrative would invent provenance intervals that the record does not contain.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"Documented Ownership and Its Limits","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"}]},{"id":"archive-87090d14cdc1b1accb80","sectionId":"provenance","text":"The object's place in a larger history of art and material culture can be indicated without overreaching the evidence. The painting's author, Gustav Klimt, lived from 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918; he worked in Vienna and in other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London, over a work period from 1877 to 1918. Within that documented career, a 1907 oil landscape held in a Viennese public collection connects the object to the artist's mature production and to Vienna as the principal site of his activity and of its institutional reception. The accession number 3685 anchors that connection in a concrete, checkable repository fact rather than in a claim about how the work arrived. Subsequent research could test the unrecorded interval against Belvedere acquisition records, but the present evidence establishes the artist's dates, the working geography, the 1907 date of the canvas, its oil-on-canvas medium and its current custodian, and no more.","kind":"documented","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The Object in a Larger Frame","citations":[{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Metadata"},{"sourceId":"source-1","locator":"Artist"}]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance","sectionId":"values","text":"The single valuation unit supplied for this object is a calculated working insurance estimate, generated on 2026-10-16, that places a range of US$500K to US$2M on Farm Garden with Sunflowers (Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen), Gustav Klimt, 1907, oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm, accession number 3685, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. The estimate's stated methodology is a deliberately broad conservative working range for manual review, calculated from confirmed contextual factors only rather than from comparable sales. The factors named in the calculation are Klimt's major status in Vienna Secession and Symbolism, the fully confirmed attribution, the iconic square garden composition, and the painting's long-term institutional collection context. The unit states that the range is intentionally wide and set below top-market Klimt levels, using the confirmed institutional and public-domain context as a moderate factor. It also states explicitly that no public insurance valuation, auction price, appraisal, or sale record for this work was supplied, and that this is not a market comparable analysis.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The working valuation and its basis","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-2","sectionId":"values","text":"The qualification attached to that range is as consequential as the numbers themselves. It is described as a model-generated working insurance range for manual review only, not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. No comparable sales, private insurance records, or official valuations were consulted, and the unit directs verification with a qualified appraiser and insurer before any coverage or financial decision. Read together with the institutional record, the documented situation is therefore asymmetric: the object's identity, medium, dimensions, date, attribution, collection and accession number are established, while its monetary value rests entirely on a transparently constructed provisional calculation. Nothing in the supplied evidence converts the range into a recorded price paid, offered or insured, and no provenance interval, owner history or transfer of the work is documented in these units. The valuation should be treated as an internal working figure whose stated limits are part of its content, not as a market fact about the painting.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The working valuation and its basis","citations":[]},{"id":"valuation-calculated-insurance-3","sectionId":"values","text":"Because the value range is explicitly derived from status, confirmed attribution and institutional setting rather than from sales, it is worth stating what those categories rest on in the evidence. Klimt's standing is documented in the record through his life dates, 14 July 1862 to 6 February 1918, his working period of 1877 to 1918, and his activity in Vienna and other locations including Brussels, Florence, Ravenna, Venice and London. The attribution to him is described in the valuation unit as fully confirmed. The long-term institutional collection context is documented through the Belvedere holding and the accession number. These are precisely the kind of stable, documented facts that a conservative working range can cite without any market data, and they are also the reason the calculation is framed as a review tool rather than an appraisal. The evidence does not establish how long the painting has been in the collection beyond the accessioned holding itself, and it does not supply any exhibition, publication or ownership history that might bear on value.","kind":"interpretation","sourceIds":["source-1"],"heading":"The object record behind the numbers","citations":[]}],"gaps":[],"coverage":{"scope":"This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. 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Complete Paintings' by Tobias G. Natter with subjects including painting, Catalogues raisonnes, and criticism and interpretation. A complete paintings catalogue raisonne would be the most likely candidate to document an individual painted work such as Farm Garden with Sunflowers within Klimt's painted oeuvre. Selection rests on the catalogued title and subject headings only, not on examination of the contents.","coverUrl":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13232339-M.jpg?default=false","coverSourceUrl":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28481141M","coverCredit":"Open Library"},{"sourceId":"book-ol22139610m","relevance":"Scholarly Klimt monograph by Alessandra Comini whose recorded subjects include Landscape in art, Landscapes in art, landscape painting, Catalogues raisonnes, and criticism and interpretation. Because the artwork is a landscape, these subject headings make it the strongest candidate for object-specific landscape discussion and art-historical context. Relevance is inferred from the catalogue record alone.","coverUrl":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9434747-M.jpg?default=false","coverSourceUrl":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22139610M","coverCredit":"Open Library"},{"sourceId":"book-ol7998239m","relevance":"An exhibition-related Klimt title (catalogued with Exhibitions, Catalogs, Art, exhibitions, and Austrian art subjects) that may include documented display and reception of Klimt paintings. Included for its exhibition and catalogue subject headings and the possibility of documented cultural reception, not as a verified source for this painting specifically.","coverUrl":"https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/596483-M.jpg?default=false","coverSourceUrl":"https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7998239M","coverCredit":"Open Library"}],"editorialNote":"Published automatically by Artifact Archive. 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