Klimt Tree of Life Coloring Page

Gustav Klimt designed The Tree of Life in Vienna in the early 1900s for the dining room of a rich family's mansion in Brussels. It isn't a painting on canvas. Craftsmen turned his design into a long wall decoration made of marble, mosaic tiles, gold and enamel.

The branches curl into hundreds of spirals, and if you look closely you'll spot a black bird sitting among them. Klimt loved using real gold in his work, maybe because his father was a gold engraver. A tree of life shows up in stories and art from all over the world, as a symbol of how everything living is connected.