Beethoven Frieze~ Gustav Klimt ~ Silver Coin with Amber in Frame
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The artist’s remarkable masterpiece was presented in 1902 to commemorate a great composer – Beethoven.
The artwork was painted directly on plaster and was 2.15 m high and 34 m wide. It is another coin from a series that shows a piece of the entire work – a mysterious couple entwined in a loving embrace.
The scene illustrates a kiss for the whole world to see, which Beethoven adapted from the “Ode to Joy” by Friedrich Schiller and added to the final chorus of his Symphony No. 9.
COIN iS DECORATED WITH POLISH AMBER – THE GOLD OF THE BALTIC SEA
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