[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/140353/fullThe Kiss (Lovers)1908 (finished 1909)180 × 180 cm
Figures: gold leaf, silver leaf, platinum leaf, resin oil colors on primed canvas (zinc paint). – Background: Composition gold (brass), glazed, flakes of metal leaf9121
“The Kiss”, probably Klimt’s most famous work, was painted at the height of his Golden Period without a direct commission. It shows a couple, melting into one, at the edge of a meadow of flowers. Only the different patterning of the robes distinguishes their bodies that are enveloped in a shimmering
golden halo. Klimt actually used real gold leaf, silver, and platinum in his picture. He presumably started work on it in 1907 and exhibited the painting at the Kunstschau in June the following
year under the title “Lovers”. From this show, the Ministry of Art purchased it for the Modern Gallery—now the Belvedere—for a price that was high even then. In autumn 1909, a catalogue of this museum cited the work for the first time as “The Kiss”, the title by which it is world famous today.Painting105926746678Upper Belvedereimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/140353/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-6678/manifest