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Women may have dominated the work of Gustav Klimt, but his most famous painting also features a man. Many experts believe the man in The Kiss is Klimt himself and that the woman he is kissing is Emile Flöge, Klimt’s partner in real life. Whether or not that is the case, like the Mona Lisa in Paris, The Kiss still has the power to make people from all over the world flock to see it. No other work of Klimt’s could provide a more fitting climax to the Austrian Mint’s Klimt and his Women series, which began in 2012 as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Viennese master’s birth and is now drawing to a close.
Painted between 1900 and 1907 to decorate the ceiling of the assembly hall of the University of Vienna, Gustav Klimt’s Faculty Paintings were the Viennese master’s last public commission. Klimt’s critics believed they broke cultural taboos and pushed the boundaries of obscenity, but their sensual beauty is plain to see on Medicine, the fourth coin in our award-winning Klimt and his Women series.
Gustav Klimt did not just paint women, he revolutionised the world’s image of them. The third coin in our incomparable Klimt and his Women series, Judith II, in which the saviour of the Israelites is portrayed as a chilling femme fatale, shows this to magnificent effect.
Few painters have succeeded in portraying the female form with such aplomb as Gustav Klimt. A case in point is The Expectation, which features in all its glory on the second in our stunning five-piece Klimt and his Women series of 50 euro gold coins celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Viennese master’s birth.
A prime example of Klimt’s “golden phase”, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is the first of the artist’s masterpieces to feature in our superlative Klimt and his Women series. It was also the most expensive painting in the world when purchased for the Neue Galerie in New York at a price of $135 million in 2006.
Gustav Klimt’s world was a world of women. From classical and allegorical to erotic and mythological, the ever-popular Austrian painter succeeded in portraying female beauty like few others, to the extent that his name is synonymous with the representation of the female form.
Klimt and his Women is an unforgettable five-coin series of miniature masterpieces celebrating the Viennese master’s unique vision of women. Each beautiful 50 euro solid gold coin in the series, all featuring a woman who moved Klimt, has been issued at the beginning of every year from 2012 to 2016. Some of these paintings may be among the most famous, coveted and valuable in the world today, but you no longer need to be a billionaire to start your very own Klimt collection.
Klimt’s artistic genius is reason enough to complete Klimt and his Women, but as a further incentive each of the five gold coins bears the letter K, L, I, M, or T, so that the complete series spells the word ‘KLIMT’.
The German name for Art Nouveau, Jugendstil was a rejection of the traditional artistic forms and values prevalent during the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sensual and fresh as well as natural and deeply emotional, its highly decorative modernist imprint is still very much alive in the architecture of Vienna today.
As the president of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was perhaps the pivotal figure in the movement and the paintings featured on the coins in this series are undoubtedly some of its most iconic.
The German name for Art Nouveau, Jugendstil was a rejection of the traditional artistic forms and values prevalent during the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sensual and fresh as well as natural and deeply emotional, its highly decorative modernist imprint is still very much alive in the architecture of Vienna today.
As the president of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was perhaps the pivotal figure in the movement and the paintings featured on the coins in this series are undoubtedly some of its most iconic.
Born the son of a gold engraver in Vienna in 1862, Gustav Klimt grew up during the boom years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when the city was undergoing the intense period of economic growth that made it one of the world’s hotbeds of creativity.
After attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, Klimt found himself among those commissioned to create decorations for the monumental buildings that still pepper the Austrian capital today.
Tiring of the conventions of interior design at the time, influenced by Symbolism he headed in a new artistic direction before finding fame as the co-founder and first president of the Vienna Secession, the artistic movement that rejected the prevailing conservatism in the Viennese art world at the end of the 19th century.
Always the subject of controversy, after more than 30 prolific years and equal amounts of success and criticism Klimt died following a stroke at the age of 55 in 1918. His reputation and popularity are, however, still in rude health almost a century later.
© Münze Österreich AG / T. Pesendorfer
With the clear lines and wood grain common to much Jugendstil furniture, this superb wooden collector case makes the ideal home for your entire Klimt and his Women collection.
Lined with velvet, allowing you to both protect and present all five coins, it also contains two boxes in which to store the coins’ accompanying descriptive booklets and certificates of authenticity. A protective slipcase decorated with Klimt’s The Kiss, which appears on the fifth coin in the series, completes this worthy and practical accessory to the collection.
Gustav Klimt’s world was a world of women. From classical and allegorical to erotic and mythological, the ever-popular Austrian painter succeeded in portraying female beauty like few others, to the extent that his name is synonymous with the representation of the female form.
Klimt and his Women is an unforgettable five-coin series of miniature masterpieces celebrating the Viennese master’s unique vision of women. Each beautiful 50 euro solid gold coin in the series, all featuring a woman who moved Klimt, has been issued at the beginning of every year from 2012 to 2016. Some of these paintings may be among the most famous, coveted and valuable in the world today, but you no longer need to be a billionaire to start your very own Klimt collection.
Klimt’s artistic genius is reason enough to complete Klimt and his Women, but as a further incentive each of the five gold coins bears the letter K, L, I, M, or T, so that the complete series spells the word ‘KLIMT’.
The German name for Art Nouveau, Jugendstil was a rejection of the traditional artistic forms and values prevalent during the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sensual and fresh as well as natural and deeply emotional, its highly decorative modernist imprint is still very much alive in the architecture of Vienna today.
As the president of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was perhaps the pivotal figure in the movement and the paintings featured on the coins in this series are undoubtedly some of its most iconic.
The German name for Art Nouveau, Jugendstil was a rejection of the traditional artistic forms and values prevalent during the heyday of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sensual and fresh as well as natural and deeply emotional, its highly decorative modernist imprint is still very much alive in the architecture of Vienna today.
As the president of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was perhaps the pivotal figure in the movement and the paintings featured on the coins in this series are undoubtedly some of its most iconic.
Born the son of a gold engraver in Vienna in 1862, Gustav Klimt grew up during the boom years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when the city was undergoing the intense period of economic growth that made it one of the world’s hotbeds of creativity.
After attending the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, Klimt found himself among those commissioned to create decorations for the monumental buildings that still pepper the Austrian capital today.
Tiring of the conventions of interior design at the time, influenced by Symbolism he headed in a new artistic direction before finding fame as the co-founder and first president of the Vienna Secession, the artistic movement that rejected the prevailing conservatism in the Viennese art world at the end of the 19th century.
Always the subject of controversy, after more than 30 prolific years and equal amounts of success and criticism Klimt died following a stroke at the age of 55 in 1918. His reputation and popularity are, however, still in rude health almost a century later.
© Münze Österreich AG / T. Pesendorfer
With the clear lines and wood grain common to much Jugendstil furniture, this superb wooden collector case makes the ideal home for your entire Klimt and his Women collection.
Lined with velvet, allowing you to both protect and present all five coins, it also contains two boxes in which to store the coins’ accompanying descriptive booklets and certificates of authenticity. A protective slipcase decorated with Klimt’s The Kiss, which appears on the fifth coin in the series, completes this worthy and practical accessory to the collection.
