Klimt spent the summer together with Emilie Flöge in Litzlberg on Lake Attersee. Not far from the brewery, where the where lodged, was a boat shed. From the jetty of this little boat house, Klimt accomplished Attersee. He very probably used a viewer to seek out this specific segment of the lake. The impressionistic surface of the water shown in this painting, achieved by setting different coloured strokes next to each other, gives a very lively impression of the Lake in summer.
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