Yesterday, the LEGO Group and the Belvedere Museum revealed the largest LEGO Art Masterpiece to date: the #31221 LEGO Art Gustav Klimt – The Kiss. Details below.
The LEGO Group, in collaboration with Belvedere Museum, invites fans to discover the golden age of art with the new #31221 LEGO Art Gustav Klimt – The Kiss set. This 4,000-piece LEGO Art set is a striking three-dimensional tribute to one of the world’s most iconic paintings, and the largest LEGO Art Masterpiece set released to date.
Inspired by Klimt’s celebrated masterpiece The Kiss, the set captures the emotion, ornamentation, and luminous color palette that defined the Austrian modernist painter’s work and the Vienna Secession movement. Reimagined through LEGO bricks, the artwork becomes an immersive creative experience that blends art, design, and mindful building.
Created in collaboration with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, where the original painting is permanently displayed, the set faithfully recreates Klimt’s signature style using layered textures and intricate details. Decorated circles, spirals, flowers, metallic gold elements, and familiar LEGO studs come together to depict the iconic embracing couple in rich, tactile form.
Speaking about the design process, Milan Madge, Master Model Designer at the LEGO Group, said: “Recreating Klimt’s The Kiss in LEGO bricks was a unique creative challenge, requiring us to capture its rich textures, golden tones, and intricate detail while honoring the original masterpiece. By combining golden LEGO elements with specially decorated pieces, we were able to recreate the artwork’s distinctive shades and textures in a building experience that celebrates its extraordinary beauty.”
To accompany the launch, the LEGO Group has produced a podcast episode featuring Master Model Designer Milan Madge and Stephanie Auer, Curator of 19th- and 20th-Century Art at the Belvedere Museum. Available from the 1st of August via LEGO.com/TheKiss, Spotify, and YouTube, the conversation explores Klimt’s artistic legacy and the creative process behind translating The Kiss into LEGO brick form – a perfect podcast to create an even more immersive building experience.
Stephanie Auer on the collaboration: “Working as a curator for the adaptation of Klimt’s The Kiss into a LEGO Art set was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Together with Milan Madge, we had extensive discussions about Gustav Klimt’s symbolism, ornamentation, and artistic techniques, as well as how these could be represented using LEGO bricks. Distinctive features such as the flatness and composition were carefully translated into LEGO bricks—always with the goal of staying true to the spirit of the original work.”
The #31221 LEGO Art Gustav Klimt – The Kiss will be available for LEGO Insiders from the 1st of August, and for all from the 4th August. Prices are as follows: £269.99 / €299.99 / $299.99. For more information, visit the LEGO Art section of the Online LEGO Shop.
What do you think? How do you like this new LEGO Art set? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below!
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They did an amazing job on this. Not my favorite painting, but I’m very impressed.
I think they did a great job within the limitations of Lego. But it is missing some important features of the original. The face of the woman really stands out in the original painting. Especially against the shiny gold background. Hear the face kind of blends in and is not as visible. And the background is not shiny gold. I would say it’s an 8 out of 10.
Alright, alright. I DARE Lego to do Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
The joke here being that it’s a huge painting done by pointillism, and if you did this true to form using 1×1 round studs, the Lego version would have to be multiple times larger than the original painting itself.
Haha! That would be awesome! But yeah, it might be the most expensive set of all time. 😀
It’s so cool!!
It’s an impressive set for sure, but I think it suffers from the same issues as the Mona Lisa. It’s hard to do faces at this scale. My favorite remains the sunflowers. It has a good balance of faithfulness to the original artwork, it looks good from any distance, and the colors are perfect.