Gustav Klimt: The Beethoven Frieze

The definitive guide to one of Klimt's major works that helped define the Viennese Art Nouveau

Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze (1902) is the supreme monument of Viennese Modernism. It is here, in his largest and most ambitious work, that Klimt launched his famous motif of the kiss and his signature color: gold. Although the work is now one of the most visited tourist destinations in Vienna, it was inaccessible to the public for decades. Originally intended to be an ephemeral work, the piece ...