DIAMOND KISS by Bob Kessel
after Gustav Klimt

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The art of the Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), is a curious and elegant synthesis of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. The Austrians responded enthusiastically to the decorative artifice of Art Nouveau, and Klimt is almost artifice incarnate. He painted large ornamental friezes of allegorical scenes, and produced fashionable portraits, uniting the stylized shapes and unnatural colors of Symbolism with his own essentially harmonious concept of beauty.

The Kiss is a fascinating icon of the loss of self that lovers experience. Only the faces and hands of this couple are visible; all the rest is great swirl of gold, studded with colored rectangles as if to express visually the emotional and physical explosion of erotic love.

Bob Kessel’s art series “KLIMT VERKLEMPT” is based on the works of Gustav Klimt. These pictures and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.

HUG by Bob Kessel
after Gustav Klimt

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AIDA by Bob Kessel
after Gustav Klimt

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Bob Kessel’s art series “KLIMT VERKLEMPT” is based on the works of Gustav Klimt. These pictures and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.

The coruscating sensuality of Klimt’s work might seem in perfect accord with a society which recognized itself in those frivolous apotheoses of happiness and well-being, the operettas of Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar. Nothing could be further from the truth. Far from being acknowledged as the representative artist of his age, Klimt was the target of violent criticism; his work was sometimes displayed behind a screen to avoid corrupting the sensibilities of the young.

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MILCH by Bob Kessel

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LAP by Bob Kessel

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Bob Kessel’s art series “KLIMT VERKLEMPT” is based on the works of Gustav Klimt. These pictures and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.

Klimt wrote little about his vision or his methods. He kept no diary. In a rare writing called “Commentary on a non-existent self-portrait”, he wrote,

“I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women…There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning to night…Who ever wants to know something about me… ought to look carefully at my pictures.”

- Gustav Klimt

KNEEL by Bob Kessel

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WRAPPED by Bob Kessel

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MOTHER AND CHILD (WITH STEALTH) by Bob Kessel

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Bob Kessel’s art series “KLIMT VERKLEMPT” is based on the works of Gustav Klimt. These pictures and many others, can be purchased as signed and numbered limited edition original fine art prints. Contact Bob Kessel for prices and availability.