One of Klimt's teachers was the Austrian artist Michael Rieser, born in Schlitters in 1828, who was an ancestor. We have recently sold a collection of Rieser's preparatory works to the Klimt Foundation in Salzburg. Klimt's success was phenomenal. Michael Rieser, his teacher, was the brother of my grandmother's grandfather. His work was mostly on religious subjects:
Gustav Klimt
