I visited the Upper Belvedere Palace on my birthday, and seeing / witnessing “The Kiss” from Gustav Klimt was a birthday gift for me :) This Baroque palace has 800 years of art history – with masterpieces by Klimt, Schiele, Monet and van Gogh.
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Built by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt to be used as the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736).
The Kiss – Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908 The Bride – Gustav Klimt, 1917
Portrait of Fritza Riedler – Gustav Klimt, 1906 Sonja Knips – Gustav Klimt, 1898
Portrait of Johanna Staude – Gustav Klimt, 1918 Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl – Gustav Klimt, 1917 Sunflower – Gustav Klimt, 1907 Portrait of Marie Breunig – Gustav Klimt, 1894 Marie Kerner von Marilaun as a Bride – Gustav Klimt, 1862
Wheat Fields at Auvers Under Clouded Sky – Vincent van Gogh, 1890 Cloud Study – Koloman Moser, 1913 The Embrace – Egon Schiele, 1917
Portrait of Père Paul – Claude Monet, 1882 Adam and Eve – Gustav Klimt, 1918 Männerkopf – Antonín Procházka, 1913
Napoleon Crossing the Alps – Jacques-Louis David, 1801-1805 Stillleben mit Büste des Kronprinzen Rudolf –
Hugo Charlemont, 1890Kaiserin Elisabeth mit Bernhardinerhund – Anton Romako, 1883 Kaiserin Elisabeth – Georg Martin Ignaz Raab, 1874 Kaiser Franz Joseph I. – Georg Martin Ignaz Raab, 1874