/internal/media/dispatcher/163227/fullMarie Kerner Von Marilaun as a Bride1891-1892[Gustav Klimt]Gustav KlimtOil on canvas In November 1891 Anton Kerner von Marilaun commissioned a portrait of his wife Marie from Gustav Klimt as a Christmas present. Basing the work on a photograph of the young bride at the couple’s wedding in 1862, Klimt completed the portrait within only one month. He shows the twenty-six-year-old Marie Kerner in a frontal pose with idealized, balanced features. White lilies adorn her elaborately braided hair and her bridal bouquet. The style of the painting reveals the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites, a group of British artists who sought to revive the spirituality and symbolism of late medieval art. Klimt often engaged with this movement at this time. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/106169/rdf