Klimt –Skizze zu „Der Kuss –Liebespaar“
In dieser Skizze stehen noch beide „Liebenden“ (1907/1908 Albertina)
in dem in denselben Jahren ausgeführten „Kuss“-Gemälde ist es dann aber auch schon wieder zu
Ende mit der Gleichberechtigung, da kniet die Frau. Würde sie aufstehen, wäre sie eine Riesin.
Werkvorlage zum Stoclet Fries
Die Erfüllung 1911
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (1907)
Surely love and passion stand at the furthest extreme
from the long white lab coats and microscopic slides of
scientific testing. Not according to Gustav Klimt’s painting
The Kiss. The year he painted his work, Vienna was alive
with the language of platelets and blood cells, especially
around the University of Vienna where Klimt himself had,
years earlier, been invited to create paintings based on
medical themes. Karl Landsteiner, a pioneering
immunologist at the University (the scientist who first
distinguished blood groups) was hard at work attempting
to make blood transfusions succeed. Look closer at the
curious patterns that throb on the woman’s frock in Klimt’s
painting and one suddenly sees them for what they are:
Petri dishes pulsing with cells as if the artist has offered us
a scan of her soul. The Kiss is Klimt’s luminous biopsy of
eternal love.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190103-eight-odd-
details-hidden-in-masterpieces
