Northern Austrian Lake Attersee's stunning turquoise waters had been visited by Gustav Klimt as a young man for the first time. The Viennese painter was then looking for a summer refuge.

It has been said by him that the scenario there was terrible and simply dreadful. A friend of his had received a letter from him, which said that everything in Vienna was hot, dreadful and dry. And he, like never before, was longing to be gone.

The most famous painter of Vienna was trying to help two lovers at the time. He also was helping to support two kids, his two unwed sisters and his mother. The report said that the need for escape of the turn-of-the-century modern art movement's leader of Austria could be welcomed without surprise.

Since, the painter, in his studio, loved to sketch naked models. Therefore, he was going through many allegations of pornography, though wealthy matrons were waiting to have their portraits painted by him.

The Salzkammergut region was visited by Klimt when he was 38 years in age. During the same, he went to a stone-and-turreted villa at Lake Attersee's northern tip. City clothing for floor-length robes were shed by him and his city mistresses were temporarily abandoned.

For 15 more summers, till his death, the painter returned to Lake Attersee.

"Anyone who wants to know anything about me as an artist should look attentively at my pictures and try to discern from them who I am and what I want", said Klimt.