 Over the next decade, alongside several private commissions for portraiture, they painted interior murals and ceilings in large public buildings, including the , the and the ceiling of the Great Hall at the University of Vienna.Klimt worked in Vienna during the , during which time the city made "an extreme and lasting contribution to the history of modern art".During the 1890s he was influenced by European avant-garde art, including the works of the painters Fernand Khnopff, Jan Toorop and Aubrey Beardsley.