Expert disputes origin of Trumpeting Putto, saying ceiling fresco was more likely painted by brother Ernst Klimt An early work by the symbolist artist Gustav Klimt that was thought lost forever has reportedly been found in a garage in northern Austria. The timing of the discovery could not be more appropriate as Austria is celebrating its most famous painter’s 150th birthday, which fell on Saturday. The ceiling fresco Trumpeting Putto, which depicts a trumpet-blowing cherub-like child draped in a red scarf against a sky-blue background, is said to have once been part of the ceiling of Klimt’s Vienna studio, where he lived with his brother Ernst between 1883 and 1892 after he had completed his studies. In the late 1980s, after a lift was installed in the building in Sandwirt Lane, the fresco disappeared. Art historians had speculated about its whereabouts ever since and it was believed to have been destroyed

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