i fell in love with this painting when I was studying in Gaming, Austria
"der kuß" - Gustav Klimt
oil on canvas, with gold-leaf in Klimt's "Golden Phase"
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
he was a founding member and the president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897. According to Wikipedia (college professors, please don't cringe), "The group's goals were to provide exhibitions for unconventional young artists, to bring the best foreign artists' works to Vienna, and to publish its own magazine to showcase members' work. The group declared no manifesto and did not set out to encourage any particular style-Naturalists, Realists, and Symbolists all coexisted."
sounds pretty inspirierend!
Klimt never painted a self-portrait. He is quoted as saying in Commentary on a Non-Existent Self-Portrait :
"I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women (...) There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night. (...) Whoever wants to know something about me-as an artist which alone is significant-they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognize what I am and what I want."
sehr interessant.
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