I Love "The Kiss" Gustav Kimt

"Golden" masterpiece of Art Nouveau

The most famous work of Gustav Klimt is the painting "The Kiss", written in the "golden" period of his work. The name of the period is associated not only with the highest flowering of the painter's creativity, but mainly with the coloristic features of the style, the master began to widely use the golden color in his works, both the paint itself and real gold leaf.

Until that time, the kiss motif had already “flickered” once in Klimt’s work, but in this work it reached its climax. The author interprets the kiss as a kind of symbol demonstrating the unity of man and woman, masculine and feminine.

Today, researchers believe that the artist himself and his beloved Emilia Flöge, with whom the eternal bachelor Klimt had a long, difficult relationship, acted as models for this world-famous painting. It was her name that he pronounced, stricken with a stroke, and this was his last word. Learn more: Muzei-mira.com

The painting now hangs in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere, Vienna. Entrance to the museum for children under 19 is free.