The Kiss
Gustav Klimt · 1907
Upper Belvedere
Vienna · Founded 1903
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.
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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. == Description == 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
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe.
Cisleithania · 1890–1918
Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.
Kingdom of Prussia · 1774–1840
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional resp
Norway · 1863–1944
Edvard Munch ( MUUNK; Norwegian:; 12 December 1863, 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of the most iconic and acclaimed images in all of Western art.
Germany · 1724–1796
Franz Anton Maulbertsch was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions.
Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel · 1780–1856
Johann Peter Krafft was a German-born Austrian painter, who specialized in portraits, historical works, and genre scenes.
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
Plan your visit
Hours
Open daily, 9am to 7pm. Confirm on www.belvedere.at before you travel.
Admission
23 euro for the Upper Belvedere. Free for children and young people under 19.
Getting there
Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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