July 14, 1862

He lived with his mother most of his life. He supported her, siblings, and a brother's family, after their father, who was a Czech engraver of gold died. They had been quite poor before though, because of prejudice against immigrants -- since they had moved to Vienna the father had not found much work at his trade.

This is an early picture of the artist's (1885). I don't know for sure, but it might be of this mother: she had wanted to a musician in her youth.

The artist only outlived his mother by a few years. The son was one of the most successful and most scandalous artists of fin-de-siecle Vienna. His name was Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 to February 6, 1918). He said all art is erotic. And he refused to paint a self-portrait, or keep a diary. He said look at my art if you want to know me. The assumption at the time was that he had affairs with his models, often upper-class wealthy women.

Klimt said "Art is a line around your thoughts. " He did not however confine his cats. Visitors to his studio were shocked to find the cats, as many as ten of them, playing with the sketches he threw on the floor. 

That modern art is Goya and Klimt may be a facile generalization.  And may be the case.