Excellant back tattoo work inspired by Gustav Klimt "Hygeia" painting. Which starts while blurry from the lower back becomes cleaner and detailed as goes up to head.
Hygeia painting by Gustav Klimt
Trained as an architectural painter, Gustav Klimt paintings
contributed to the interior decorations of numerous public buildings in
Vienna. Among the more famous cases are the faculty paintings he
completed for the University of Vienna in the years 1900-07. The three
paintings, Medicine, Philosophy and Jurisprudence, covered three central
faculties at the school. The paintings were unfortunately all destroyed
by retreating SS forces in May 1945.
The
second of the three works was unveiled at the tenth Secession
Exhibition in 1901. This work covered Medicine. In the painting we find a
river of life running in the upper part, with a floating girl and her
newborn symbolizing life and a skeleton within the river of life
symbolizing its ties to death. In the lower part of the painting, we
find Hygeia, the Greek goodness of health, cleanliness and sanitation
and daughter of the god of medicine. Standing there in her red robes,
the Aesculapius snake is wrapped around her arm while she is holding the
cup of Lethe in her hand (the drinking of which results in the loss of
memory). A photo of Hygeia taken before the destruction of the painting
ensures that we have a clear view of how this masterful depiction
looked.