Gustav Klimt
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
1907
- Gustav Klimt
- Neue Galerie New York
- Art Nouveau
- Women in art
Gustav Klimt
The Kiss
Gustav Klimt · 1907–08
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- Artist
- Gustav Klimt
- Year
- 1907–08
- Museum
- Belvedere
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Period
- 20th century
- Style
- Figure and allegory
- Format
- Square
A founder of the Vienna Secession, known for the gold-leaf works of his “golden phase”.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
There is real gold in this painting.
- Klimt used real gold leaf alongside oil paint; it is the high point of his “golden phase”, inspired by Byzantine mosaics.
- The Austrian state bought it in 1908 at the Kunstschau, where it was first shown; it has been in Vienna ever since.
- It is a square canvas, 180 × 180 cm: the embracing couple stand at the edge of a flower-covered cliff.
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Beech Grove I
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- Gustav Klimt
- Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
- Art Nouveau
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The Three Ages of Woman
1905
- Gustav Klimt
- National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
- Art Nouveau
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