Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Oil on canvas, 140x140, 1907. Also called The Lady in Gold, or Woman in Gold. A commission by a Jewish banker, which was then stolen by the Nazis in 1941. In 2006, a seven year legal case to reclaim the painting from the Galerie Belvedere was finally successful, and the painting was returned to the family of its original commissioner.
Personal Skills
Art Nouveau B
A Skill named after the style of art that Klimt took up, which was also known as the Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Nieuwe Kunst in Dutch, or the Modern Style in English. One of its major objectives were to break down the traditional distinction between fine arts (painting, sculpture, etc) and applied arts (architecture, glass art, jewellery). Also notable was its sense of dynamism and its usage of modern materials such as iron or glass.
Its effect is to break down the barriers between forms of art. This gives Klimt the usual artist's bonus chance of recognizing others' Noble Phantasms through knowledge of art & decorations, but more importantly (according to him) it also lets him utilize any tool even remotely associated with art as improvised brushes for his work, ranging from actual brushes to graffiti cans to sewing needles to glassblowing equipment etc.
Golden Phase A++ A Skill unique to Klimt, showing his methods of creating art. His paintings, especially in this period, are fused visions of the sacred and the profane, abandoning academic styles and instead embracing themes of desire, of sexuality, of psychology through the motif of ornamental design. Both Klimt's father and brother were engravers, and Gustav, too, was taught the art from almost the moment he could walk.
Klimt fights - when he is forced to - by throwing heavy strokes of molten golden colouring that he conjures up from seemingly nowhere from whatever he is wielding. Though lacking the heat of true molten gold or any of the metallurgic properties of real gold, what he paints is both capable of dealing real damage and creating temporary structures. It is also possible to include other colours with a variety of minor additional effects, at the cost of more mana.
Stolen Art B
A Skill for those artists whose work was famously stolen by others. Klimt was often commissioned by the wealthy Jews of Vienna, on one occasion painting a succession of portraits of three generations of women. When the Nazis rose to power, these women (and men) were often persecuted and fraudulently accused of crimes, both to get at their wealth and because no Jew could be tolerated in a position of power. While a significant amount of works of Klimt and other painters were burned and are now lost, cases such as the portraits of Szerena Lederer's family or Adele Bloch-Bauer have fortunately been returned to their rightful owners or their descendants.
The effect of the Skill is that Klimt may erase any information related to his Master or any other person he chooses to let model for him. This is a passive effect that automatically scrubs the memories and even physical traces from his painting. However, it also erases the painting itself, of course, which Klimt may not necessarily be happy about.