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Gustav Klimt in Vienna
The global names associated with Vienna’s history tend to carry a pen and sheet music. One artist has muscled his way in among the musicians, though: Gustav Klimt. He was born, lived, worked, and died in the city. So his name and works appear all over the place, often where least expected.
This Klimt guide covers two sets of locations for those wishing to trace his paint-splattered footsteps:
- Where best to see the paintings and other works
- Landmarks relevant to Klimt’s life, including his final studio, final residence, and final resting place
All the locations mentioned appear on the map at the end of the article.
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Klimt: his works
So, let us first take a gentle journey through the museums and other buildings displaying examples of Klimt’s oeuvre, beginning with the big one…
Belvedere
(Upper Belvedere art gallery and home to The Kiss)
If you’re in Vienna and interested in Klimt, then Upper Belvedere should be your top priority. The permanent art exhibition inside this palace and museum has Klimt’s incomparable masterpiece, The Kiss.
(Visiting Vienna on a Klimt tour and not seeing The Kiss would be like eating a hot dog without the sausage inside.)
Belvedere usually has around a dozen other Klimt paintings on display, too. However, you may not be the only one interested, so book your time slot in advance or risk a wait.
See my article on The Kiss for more advice on how best to see the work. And look out for any relevant special exhibitions at Belvedere, too.
For example, Lower Belvedere has the Klimt. Inspired by van Gogh, Rodin, Matisse… exhibition running from February 3rd to May 29th, 2023.
Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum enjoys considerable fame for its Schiele collection, but the Vienna 1900 permanent exhibition includes a whole section dedicated to Klimt.
The Klimt area also has an authentic reproduction of his studio and a small room dedicated to the life and work of Klimt’s long-time friend and muse, Emilie Flöge.
The Albertina
(One side of the Albertina palais and art museum)
The Albertina museum owns more art than you can shake a paintbrush at but most of it lives in storage.
Their Klimt collection covers a vast number of drawings, for example, but what you see really depends on the Albertina’s current special exhibitions: you might be lucky. For example, I once caught Klimt’s 1899 Water Nymphs (Silverfish) work on a visit to their permanent displays.
Wien Museum
The Karlsplatz central site of the Wien Museum (i.e. Museum of Vienna) has the years around 1900 as one of the artistic focal points of its collection.
This focus naturally includes Klimt, represented, for example, in his 1902 portrait of Emilie Flöge. Three of his other paintings on display when I visited were Love (1895), Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1894) and Pallas Athena (1898).
Unfortunately, the museum recently closed for major redevelopment with plans to reopen in December 2023.
Kunsthistorisches Museum
(Klimt worked on the decor inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum)
The art history museum is better known for its Titians and Tintorettos. So you might wonder how a major star of Vienna modernism fits into the place. Spoiler: he doesn’t. But…
Franz Matsch, Gustav Klimt and Ernst Klimt were commissioned to contribute to the decorative paintings around the museum’s huge (and majestic) main staircase.
If you’re lucky, a temporary stairs or viewing scope lets you get up close to Klimt’s work.
Burgtheater
The public commission that really established the careers of the Klimts and Matsch was a cycle of ceiling paintings for the Burgtheater.
You don’t have to watch a play to get inside the building and see the frescoes. Simply visit the two main decorative staircases as part of a guided tour.
(P.S. The painting showing a scene from the Globe theatre is the only known Klimt self-portrait.)
Secession building
(The trademark golden dome of the Secession building)
The exhibition building of the famous Secession group of artists co-founded by Klimt continues to host contemporary art.
More importantly for our purposes, the gallery’s lower floor provides a home for the huge Beethovenfries wall painting completed by Klimt for the 1902 Beethoven Exhibition.
Hermesvilla
Emperor Franz Joseph built this summer residence in the 1880s for Empress Elisabeth in the Lainzer Tiergarten woodland park. Klimt worked with his brother and Matsch on ceiling paintings you can view in the Empress’s bedroom and salon.
Although in Vienna, reaching the villa takes a while. So don’t make this your priority Klimt stop unless you’re planning on a longer stay.
The MAK museum
(The rather lovely entrance)
Vienna’s MAK museum focuses on the applied arts, but its Vienna 1900 permanent exhibition includes, for example, Klimt’s 1910/1911 series of design drawings for the mosaic frieze found in the dining room of the Josef Hoffmann-designed Stoclet palace in Belgium (now a UNESCO world heritage site).
Theatermuseum
(The museum occupies Palais Lobkowitz, where Beethoven’s 3rd symphony premiered)
And, finally…if it’s not on the road for some exhibition or another, then Klimt’s remarkable 1899 Nuda Veritas (Naked Truth) painting lives in the Theatermuseum in its own small gallery.
Klimt: life and landmarks
Now, let’s take a tour of those locations associated with Klimt’s life and loves…
Birth
Klimt was born at Linzer Strasse 247 on July 14th, 1862 in what is now Vienna’s 14th district. Unfortunately, nothing remains of the original house.
Instead, one of the city’s famous municipal housing blocks now occupies the space. Built in the late 1960s, it recently had an official name change to the Gustav-Klimt-Hof in honour of the artist and location.
The Klimt Villa
(Klimt’s last studio)
The Klimt Villa proved to be the great artist’s final studio, which he used from 1911 to 1918. It’s now open to the public, with an authentic recreation of the furniture and decor as it once was.
The garden even has plants that Klimt might have once tended and whose colours might have provided inspiration for some of his paintings.
Other studios & residences
You can’t see inside these places (excepting the Otto Wagner Villa), but these are other locations I’ve tracked down:
- Stuckgasse 6: an early studio before the Company of Artists was founded in 1883
- Sandwirtgasse 8: the first joint studio with Ernst Klimt and Franz Matsch
- Josefstädter Straße 21: a joint garden studio with the same, which Klimt continued to use after the Company ended in 1892
- Florianigasse 54: an attic studio Klimt rented for completing the controversial Faculty Paintings that were allegedly destroyed by fire at the end of WWII
- Burggasse 47: Klimt’s home prior to Westbahnstraße
- Neubaugasse 54: the artist lived here during his childhood
- Casa Piccola, Mariahilfer Straße 1a: the fashion house co-run by Emilie Flöge (Klimt’s “life companion”) occupied the floor above the coffee house
- Otto Wagner Villa: Klimt was apparently a guest at this gorgeous villa, initially built by the architect Otto Wagner and then renovated and reworked by the artist Ernst Fuchs
Death
(Klimt’s final residence)
Klimt’s final residence was at Westbahnstraße 36 in the 7th district, where he suffered the stroke that was to prove his undoing.
A plaque outside the building commemorates the location and notes (my translation of the German):
The artist Gustav Klimt lived in this house in the years 1898 – 1918
(The old general hospital buildings)
After he fell ill, they took Klimt to the hospital on Alser Straße in the 9th district. He died there on February 6th, 1918. The area now houses a collection of university buildings, bars and shops (and a Christmas market).
Klimt’s grave
Klimt is buried in the Hietzinger cemetery in Vienna’s 13th district (Maxingstraße 15), adjoining the grounds of the famous Schönbrunn Palace. His well-kept honorary grave carries the number 194/195 in the section marked as Group Five.
(For all the details and directions, see the article on Klimt’s grave.)
And finally…
The souvenir industry has discovered Klimt, so expect to find appropriate mementos all over the city. The Kiss has now transcended the glorious surroundings of Upper Belvedere to appear on a million mugs and mouse pads. Poor Gustav.
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The Kiss by Klimt
The official colours of Vienna are red and white. The unofficial ones are black and gold, the colours of Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss: a truly iconic painting and the city’s greatest art treasure.
- Klimt’s famous work, created 1907-1908
- Painting’s past is surprisingly uneventful
- On display at Upper Belvedere
- Open daily and hugely popular
- Tip: advance booking a time slot avoids a possible wait
- Note: Free entry on May 13/14 for the Spring Festival
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The painting
Klimt’s The Kiss seems to be everywhere in Vienna. It’s slowly taking over the souvenir shops. And anything Klimt-related usually has the painting front and centre.
(The Kiss; photo courtesy of and © Belvedere, Wien. Reproduced with permission under the terms of Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0.)
I’m no art expert, so won’t wax lyrical on the meaning or composition of the work itself. Suffice to say that The Kiss has caught the imagination of the world.
Experts consider the 1907/1908 painting to be the most iconic example of Austria’s Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) period. But its fame and status has long gone global.
The work first appeared in public at a 1908 exhibition organised around Klimt and colleagues; the “Kunstschau” featured many of the stalwarts of the Wiener Moderne movement.
Among the paintings on display and for sale that day: a composition by Klimt named the Lovers (the original title for The Kiss).
Such a painting deserves a mysterious and troubled history of purchases, with the occasional theft thrown in for good measure. I fear the reality is far more banal.
(Unknown photographer, Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge in a boat on the Attersee lake in 1909, not long after completion of the Kiss, Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 157540; reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)
The Ministry of Education bought the picture (the ministry’s remit at the time also included culture) for the state’s Moderne Galerie collection at Lower Belvedere palace in Vienna.
And that was more or less it, because it’s still at Belvedere (albeit at the upper palace now).
Klimt already has a couple of less-iconic works in the list of the World’s Top 20 most expensive painting sales, so you can only begin to imagine how much The Kiss is worth.
(I once asked a Belvedere guide how much The Kiss would sell for and she simply laughed.)
However, you can “own” part of the painting by buying one ten thousandth of the official digitised image from Belvedere as an NFT. Last time I checked, pieces were still available.
This is pretty much the most famous artwork in the entire country and one of the most famous in the world. So prepare to do battle by smartphone if you pick the wrong time to view it.
How can I see the Kiss?
(The rather fine home of The Kiss with a Christmas market outside)
The original painting hangs on display in Vienna’s Belvedere complex.
The institution has several locations within the museum area, but you want Upper Belvedere palace; The Kiss makes up part of the permanent Vienna 1900 section there.
You likely won’t be the only ones trying to see the masterpiece.
However, the crowd is nothing like those you get for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. And The Kiss is quite large – about 1.8m by 1.8m – so easily admired from a little distance, if necessary.
Tickets and visitor tips
Here are my recommendations for visiting Upper Belvedere and Klimt’s prestigious work:
- Buy a ticket in advance*: this is so you can book a date and time slot that’s best for you. (I’d pick an early time so you have fewer visitors competing for space)
Such is the interest in the paintings at Belvedere that the museum introduced time slots to manage the visitor numbers.
There’s a small risk if you buy at the door that your allocated slot may involve a wait, especially in busy seasons.
However, if you do prefer to simply buy on site and want a more gentle viewing experience, consider these three tips…
- Avoid weekends and holiday periods
- Go early. I’ve often gone to Belvedere just after it opens and enjoyed relative quiet, even around The Kiss
- Pick the right season: slower periods for tourism are:
- Mid-January through to a couple of weeks before Easter
- A week or two after Easter through to early/mid June
- September, October and early November before the advent markets open
Don’t leave Upper Belvedere without taking a look around the wider Vienna 1900 exhibition and other exhibition areas.
The permanent collection features art by the likes of, for example, Schiele, Rodin, Kokoschka, Munch, Monet, Makart, and similar.
Expect a whole number of other works by Klimt, too. These include the almost-but-not-quite-as-famous-as-the-Kiss Judith, though that sometimes goes on loan for exhibitions elsewhere.
Keep an eye out, as well, for any of Messerschmidt’s astonishing character heads that might be on display.
On top of that, you may find some special temporary exhibitions at Upper Belvedere, and all with a serious dose of gorgeous Baroque architecture thrown in for good measure!
If you’re still up for more Klimt paintings after Belvedere, then I have various tips for other Viennese locations here.
(Definitely go to the Leopold Museum, which has a significant number of works on display in their excellent Vienna 1900 exhibition.)
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Ticket prices will start at $36.00 for adults and $19.90 for children.
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For Standard Access only ticket holders, entry to the VR experience can be purchased separately on site.Can I purchase VR tickets on-site?
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