The Kiss
Gustav Klimt · 1907
Upper Belvedere
Vienna
Klimt's Kiss, in gold leaf, in a baroque palace above its own gardens. Twenty-three euro, in the upper of two baroque palaces, with the formal garden running down between them.
What to see
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt · 1907
The Kiss is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what scholars call his "Golden Period". It was exhibited in 1908 under the title Liebespaar as stated in the catalogue of the exhibition. The painting depicts a couple embracing each other, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement.
Judith I
Gustav Klimt · 1901
Judith and the Head of Holofernes is an oil painting by Gustav Klimt, painted in 1901. It depicts the biblical figure Judith holding the head of Holofernes after beheading him.
Beethoven Frieze
Gustav Klimt · 1901
The Beethoven Frieze is a painting by Gustav Klimt on display in the Secession Building, Vienna, Austria. In 1902, Klimt painted the Beethoven Frieze for the Fourteenth Vienna Secession exhibition in celebration of 75th anniversary of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven's death.
Portrait of Jacopo Strada
Titian, 1567. The Portrait of Jacopo Strada is an oil on canvas portrait of the court librarian Jacopo Strada by Titian, from 1567-1568. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna.
Death and the Maiden
Egon Schiele · 1915
Death and the Maiden is an oil on canvas painting by the Austrian painter Egon Schiele from 1915. It is exhibited in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, in Vienna. Schiele initially named the large picture measuring 150 by 180 centimeters as Man and Girl and also Entwined People.
Portrait of Père Paul
Claude Monet · 1882
Portrait of Père Paul, also known as Monsieur Paul or The Chef, is a painting by Claude Monet. He painted it in 1882 in oil on canvas with a height of 64.5 cm and a width of 52.1 cm.
Artists
Austrian Empire · 1862–1918
Cisleithania · 1890–1918
Kingdom of Prussia · 1774–1840
Norway · 1863–1944
Germany · 1724–1796
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel · 1780–1856
France · 1840–1926
Austrian Empire · 1793–1865
Austrian Empire · 1840–1884
Austria–Hungary · 1883–1908
Dutch · 1853–1890 · Post-impressionism
Austria · 1862–1945
Artworks
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Jacques-Louis David · 1800
The Evil Mothers
Giovanni Segantini · 1894
Empress Elisabeth with St. Bernard dog
Anton Romako · 1883
The Simpleton
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt · 1777
Madame Legois
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot · 1840
Badende mit blondem, offenem Haar
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1903
The Old Bachelor
Carl Spitzweg · 1846
Vittore Pisani receives Holy Communion before taking command of an expedition against the Genoese
Ludovico Lipparini · 1852
Self-Portrait, Laughing
Richard Gerstl · 1908
Die breite Föhre nächst der Brühl bei Mödling
Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld · 1838
Allegory of the Golden Age
Franz Anton Maulbertsch · 1752
The Judgementof Paris
Max Klinger · 1886
Sources
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