Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), The Kiss

A faithful copy of Gustav Klimt's painting: "The Kiss," painted in 2017.
Oil, gilding techniques, canvas.
Dimensions: 185 x 185 cm, 200 x 200 cm with frame
Signature: p.d.: Gustav Klimt
Framed painting, created on the basis of the original hanging in the Belvedere Gallery.
The artist studied the original, located in Vienna, in order to render the technique and details as faithfully as possible.

The author of the copy is Adam Job (b. 1966), a 1996-1992 graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of Prof. Stanisław Rodziński and Prof. Zbylut Grzywacz.

Gustav Klimt (born July 14, 1862 in Baumgarten, today in Penzing, 14th district of Vienna, died February 6, 1918 in Vienna) - Austrian painter and graphic artist. One of the founders of the Vienna Secession and its first president.
Gustav Klimt's paintings often depict female figures emanating eroticism as an expression of human life relationships and feelings such as hope, love and death. For this reason, he became a much sought-after portraitist of women in Vienna.
Klimt's work can be divided into several periods: Historicism (1879-80), Antique inspiration (1886-1891, monumental works at the Burgtheater and the Museum of Art History in Vienna), Impressionism(Schubert at the Piano (1896), Young Woman in an Arm chair (1896), Portrait of a Lady (1897), Lady (Woman) by the Fireplace (1897/98), Lady (Woman) in an Armchair (1897/98) and Portrait of Sonja Knip (1898)) and from 1897 onward. Art Nouveau. From the mid 1890s onward, he used gold backgrounds in several paintings, which shows the influence of Japanese art (Japonism). The use of gold in paintings is characteristic of Gustav Klimt. (Catholic denomination)