The ornaments around the male figure are characterized by square and rectangular forms, while soft lines and floral patterns are dominant in the female. The man is bent over the woman, and she - clinging tightly to him - awaits his kiss. Klimt's most famous painting depicts a couple embracing in a field of flowers. Many of the Jewish families who were Klimt's patrons and friends fell victim to this terror or were forced into exile. A further turning point was represented by the years of Nazi terror. What followed was a time of economic hardship memories of the fin de siècle faded. That same year saw the deaths of a number of kindred spirits, such as Otto Wagner, Kolo Moser, and Egon Schiele, and it also marked the downfall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The year of his death, 1918, represented a momentous turning point. Klimt took this period of ambivalence and upheaval as a subject for artistic exploration and interpretation. Klimt's life coincided with an epoch that the Austrian writer Hermann Broch called the "merry apocalypse". He was the painter of the Haute bourgeoisie, which he depicted most prominently in his portraits of women, and he found numerous Jewish patrons who were open to the new trends in the arts. Despite receiving medals from Austrian emperors, Klimt was ignored by the aristocracy.
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