Who was born first, Claude Monet or Gustav Klimt?

Claude Monet was born first, in 1840. Gustav Klimt was born in 1862.

Claude Monet & Gustav Klimt

Did Claude Monet and Gustav Klimt live at the same time?

Yes. Claude Monet and Gustav Klimt lived at the same time for 56 years, from 1862 to 1918.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Claude Monet · Gustav Klimt · Born in 1840 · Born in 1862

Claude Monet

1840–1926

Art

Water Lilies, father of Impressionism

Gustav Klimt

1862–1918

Art

The Kiss, Art Nouveau master

18401926

Claude Monet

Gustav Klimt

Claude Monet

Art

Born in Paris

Died in Giverny

Gustav Klimt

Art

Born in Baumgarten

Died in Altes AKH

World Events During Their Overlap

1865 Abolition of slavery in the United States

1869 Suez Canal opens

1871 Unification of Germany

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

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Gustav Klimt & Andrew Carnegie

56 years overlap

Gustav Klimt & John D. Rockefeller

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Gustav Klimt & Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Sources

Claude Monet — Wikipedia
Claude Monet (Q296) — Wikidata
Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
Gustav Klimt (Q34661) — Wikidata