People are living longer, so the career you expected to cap off at 40 years could last 60.

There are very few people who can work 40 years and save enough money to not work for another 30.

Get ready for a 60-year career with a special series on your money briefing from the Wall Street Journal.

Wednesdays in September.

For most of modern history, if you wanted a piece of original art, you had to hire an artist.

Someone like Gustav Klimt.

He's most known for his gold-studded work, The Kiss.

In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint three works for the ceiling of the University of Vienna.

They were supposed to capture the essence of the three faculties.

Medicine, jurisprudence, meaning law, and philosophy.

They're known collectively as the University or Faculty paintings.

The paintings were a challenge for Klimt.

They were huge, each over 13 feet tall, and he even rented out a special studio to work on them.

Medicine featured a cloud of human figures at different ages adorned with signature, Klimt detailing.

Philosophy displayed a column of stacked bodies with a face of a sphinx peering in from the darkness.

And jurisprudence was an intense composition with scattered bodies seemingly bound to each other.

And when they were ready, there was this excitement and this kind of scandal because people had not expected to see such paintings.

Dr. Fran Smola is a curator at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

It's home to the largest single collection of Klimt paintings in the world.

This was really the most important commission for Klimt,

which had cost him so much effort and also which was a crucial turning point for his coming to style,

to finding to his personal style.

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