Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

Price:$166.00

The Kiss painting is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.

This is an example of a recent reproduction painting of Klimt's The Kiss which we produced for one of our many happy customers!

Two figures are situated at the edge of a flowered escarpment. The man is wearing neutral coloured rectangles and a crown of vines; the woman wears brightly coloured tangent circles and flowers in her hair. The twain’s embrace is enveloped by triangular vining and a veil of concentric circles.

Similarly juxtaposed couples appear in both Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze and Stoclet Frieze. Some think that Klimt and his beloved companion Emilie Flöge modeled for the masterpiece.

The Kiss is a discreet expression of Klimt’s emphasis on eroticism and the liberation therein. The Kiss falls in line with Klimt’s exploration of fulfillment and the redeeming, transformative power of love and art.

The Kiss is deviant from Klimt’s frequent portrayal of women as the lascivious femme fatale.

The piece is currently at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum, which is housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.

The Painting coin issued on 5 November 2003. The obverse depicts Klimt in his studio with two unfinished masterpieces on easels, while the reverse shows “Der Kuss” (The Kiss).

Gustav Klimt's illustrious career is a long tale of exceptional achievement in art. His work still gains fame across the world, far beyond the boundaries of his own Austria. In this special article we will illustrate his major works in chronological order.

We will pay particular attention to his most famous work, and a painting that remains one of the most popular paintings around the world, even today. That is The Kiss, which Klimt painted in 1908. As a regular traveler I have seen this iconic work in far flung parts of Asia & South America as well as its traditional home in Western Europe.

To understand The Kiss painting, it is important to study the full art career of Klimt, with particular attention to the timing of his major works, and see where this great painting fits in.

Gustav Klimt was born in 1862 in Baumgarten, close to the Austrian capital Vienna. His family was relatively poor for the time and life was hard for the Klimt's with his father pressured to support the family adequately.

After entering the Vienna Public Art School at the age of 14, Gustav Klimt set out on a path that would eventually lead to stardom and international acclaim.

Klimt started his art career and spent the first few years designing stylish staircase decorative additions which gained him good feedback from his early customers, some well known Austrian museums in Vienna. Klimt's notorious style also began to take shape already with gold paint, areas of detail and areas of abstract space, symbolism, the female figure appearing in one of his very early piece, The Tragedy.

1892 marked an important time in Gustav's life with the death of both his father and his brother Ernst. On a more positive note, he moved into a larger studio as his career started to gain momentum.

Gustav soon started to gain as much controversy for his contemporary style as fame, and his work in public institutions was to dry up due to the conservative nature of their management. It was around this time that the Secession Movement began whose timing and ambitions were ideally suited to Klimt. He took a key role in this movement for some years to come as it developed into a popular element of the Vienna art scene, with many foreign contemporary artists included too.

Klimt's first levels of acclaim for his art came at around the turn of the century when he was featured, successfully, at the Paris World Fair. The preceding year he painted "Medicine" and "Judith and Holofernes" which remain as two of his most well known paintings with art lovers of the modern day. Beethoven Frieze and a portrait of Emilie Flöge followed in 1902 as the Secession Building continued to attract great numbers of visitors from both Austria and abroad.

Klimt's foreign popularity took him to Belgium and Italy as the Secession Movement built up a reputation throughout Europe. A private mansion commissioned some murals and he explored the artistic history of Italy looking for further inspiration. "Water Snakes" was also created around this time, 1904, which is another of his most famous paintings.

Klimt decided to back his own artistic beliefs and quit the Secession movement along with with a number of other members to set up "Kunstschau". This move helped to inspire Klimt to then paint "The Three Ages of Women" - another classic.

1907 and 1908 marked a key stage in Klimt's career, probably the most important, as he painted "Danae", "Adele Bloch-Bauer" & "The Kiss". The Kiss remains his most famous painting, and is the most purchased art reproduction, currently, with art lovers picking it up in print or poster form to show off in their homes and offices.

Klimt's concentration on eroticism as an inspiration for his art, which had earlier brought him controversy, began to be mixed in with other themes, most notably death, as seen in "Judith II" , "Hope" & "Death and Life".

Gustav Klimt continued to gift the art world more beautiful paintings up until his sudden death in 1918 after a combination of a stroke and pneumonia. The most famous Austrian artist was suddenly gone, but his original, glorious art still lives in on the hearts of art fans across the world.

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Beethoven Frieze is a classic painting by Gustav Klimt, and one of his most famous works, alongside The Kiss.

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The Three Ages Of Woman painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Three Ages Of Woman.

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The Goldfish painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Goldfish.

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The Adele Bloch-Bauer Portrait II painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Adele Bloch-Bauer Portrait II.

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The Forest Birch Trees painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Forest Birch Trees.

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The Music painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Music.

Price:$166.00

The Johanna Staude painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Johanna Staude.

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The Dancer painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Dancer.

Price:$166.00

The Farm Garden painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Farm Garden.

Price:$166.00

The Water Serpents II painting, Klimt's masterpice of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Water Serpents II.

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The Mother And Child painting, Klimt's masterpiece of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and .

Price:$166.00

The Death And Life painting, Klimt's masterpice of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Tree of Life. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Death And Life.

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The Pallas Athene painting, Klimt's masterpice of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Pallas Athene. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Pallas Athene.

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The Virgin painting, Klimt's masterpice of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Tree of Life. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Tree Of Life.

Price:$166.00

The Tree Of Life painting, Klimt's masterpice of 1909 is available in exceptional high quality as reproduction to add to your lounge or bedroom wall!! Klimt's use of swirling branches were continued into Gustav Klimt: Fulfillment (The Embrace) which added his typical portrayal of women with detailed patterns of circles and color.

Klimt's heavily stylized images are two-dimensional with symbols, e.g. stacked Egyptian eyes, triangles, rectangles, circles, possible seedpods and blackbirds perched on a few branches (represents death). All are scattered throughout the golden spirals that form each Tree of Life. Also, there are shrubs with butterflies, seedlings and flowers on the ground. Expectation depicts a woman (dancer) searching and Fulfillment has an embracing male and female enveloped within a mosaic robe.

Besides less usage of gold in his Later Period, he made other changes such as replacing patterned symbols with flowers, adding multiple coverlets, simplifying the decoration, making a woman look taller when viewed from below the painting, and illustrating a model's likeness and personality (seldom done by Klimt in his earlier periods).

Gustav Klimt created many of his paintings at the Vienna Workshop and incorporated the finest and most luxurious materials at his disposal including marble, goldleaf, silver and semi-precious stones to create a succession of beautiful oil paintings, which include The Kiss, Beethoven Frieze and Tree Of Life.

Price:$166.00