Belvedere Museum

The Kiss
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Gustav Klimt’s the Kiss

Everything you need to know

One of the world’s most famous works of art and the centerpiece of the Belvedere’s collection. The renowned museum in Vienna has transformed it into an innovative NFT project: the most famous depiction of a pair of lovers is offered for sale in a limited number of digital copies.

Digital collectibles of a bona fide masterpiece

A high-resolution digital copy divided into 10,000 unique individual pieces offered as NFTs. Each segment of the work is issued with a NFT certificate to show precisely which part of the image has been purchased.

 

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Meet the artist

With this work at the height of his “Golden Period,” Austrian painter Gustav Klimt created a universal allegorical statement about love as a central theme of human existence. The Austrian state bought the work when it was first presented, in 1908, for the recently founded Modern Gallery in the Lower Belvedere. Since then, the painting has remained in the museum’s holdings. Today, The Kiss is considered an icon of Viennese Art Nouveau and European Modernism. It is one of the most famous and most frequently reproduced works of art in the world.

NFT sales platform

In addition to buying the NFT, buyers can register as owners of their piece on the platform thekiss.art, where the picture can be viewed in its entirety. An individual dedication of love may be added to the NFT via the thekiss.art platform. These dedications are displayed on the platform. The NFTs can be resold on any commercially available NFT sales platform.