Best Paintings of all Time

Adolph Menzel's (1815-1905) 'The Iron-Rolling Mill' was his most famous painting and with justice, for it is a powerful painting that depicts like none before the brutal conditions of the industrial  labour of the nineteenth century. Menzel made the human element much more important than the industrial work surrounding and with that he achieved a very special work of art.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is a very special painter to me. He was a master of neoclassicism, realism, symbolism and pretty much every other kind of art he ever tried. His use of golden color is fantastic. I chose this one in particular because it's a painting that has most of the elements by which Klimt's paintings were famous. The painting was named 'Beethoven Frieze', not coincidentally the same name of this very blog, of course.