Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings

Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
The bottom portion of the Medicine picture, showing Hygieia
ArtistGustav Klimt
Year1900–1907
LocationDestroyed

The Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, also known as the Faculty Paintings, were a series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between 1900 and 1907. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint the ceiling. Upon presenting his paintings, Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, Klimt came under attack for 'pornography' and 'perverted excess' in the paintings. None of the paintings went on display in the university.

It is believed that all three paintings were destroyed at the end of World War II when retreating SS forces set fire to Schloss Immendorf, where they were housed, though this is not conclusively verified.

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