Klimt Wallpaper for Mac: Why The Kiss Loses Its Faces, and What Fits
Klimt paintings to use as a Mac wallpaper, picked from 120 Klimt works on October 10, 2026. Fifty-four are square, and on a MacBook the default crop cuts the faces out of The Kiss. See three ways to keep them.
If you want a Klimt on your Mac, start with the paintings below. One warning first: set The Kiss as it is and macOS cuts off both faces, because the painting is square and the screen is wide. They were picked from the 120 Klimts in Art4 on October 10, 2026.
Klimt paintings for your wallpaper
The Kiss1908–09, BelvedereMuseum page: The Kiss 
Beech Grove I1902, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden 
Water Serpents II1904, private collection
Set these as your Mac wallpaper with Art4
- Choose a painting and it becomes your wallpaper. For a square or upright painting, you drag to choose which part fills the screen, so The Kiss keeps its faces.
- Art4 has 120 Klimts, and Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, and many other painters to set the same way.
- Read the story behind each work, and follow how painters and movements connect while you browse.
Keeping the faces in The Kiss
The shaded bands are what a MacBook cuts off when the wallpaper is set to Fill Screen.
The Kiss1908–09, BelvedereMacBook crops 36% of heightMuseum page: The Kiss
The default placement keeps the middle of the picture. It takes the man’s head and most of the woman’s face, and leaves robes, meadow, and feet. There are three ways around it.
- Fit to Screen. macOS shows the whole square with bars at the sides.
- Crop the file yourself. Cut a wide strip from the top of the image, so the faces stay and part of the meadow goes, then set the cropped file.
- Choose the crop in an app. Art4 lets you drag the visible area up or down before it sets the wallpaper.
Klimts that crop well
Of the 120 Klimts, 54 are square. The square landscapes are the easy ones: On Lake Attersee is almost entirely water, and Beech Grove I is tree trunks from edge to edge, so losing a third of either still leaves a picture of water or of trees.
For an external monitor, two wide works fit. Two Girls with an Oleander is almost exactly the shape of an ultrawide. Water Serpents II is close to 16:9, though the file Art4 has is small and looks soft on a 4K monitor.
Questions about Klimt wallpapers
Why are Klimt’s landscapes square?
He chose the format. According to the Klimt Database of the Klimt Foundation in Vienna, he painted his first square landscapes in 1899 and used the square for every landscape after that, looking for his compositions through a piece of cardboard with a square opening.
Is Klimt’s work in the public domain?
Yes. Klimt died in 1918, and his paintings are in the public domain. On your own desktop any reproduction is fine.
Which Klimt suits an upright monitor?
The tall ones: 46 of the 120 are upright. Judith I, the Portrait of Emilie Flöge, and the Tree of Life design for the Stoclet Frieze are all about twice as high as they are wide.
Wallpapers by other painters
The same pages exist for Monet, Van Gogh, and Impressionism as a whole. For the story of the painting, read The Kiss explained.
Put a Klimt on your Mac, faces included
Browse all 120 Klimts, drag to choose the part of a square painting that fills your screen, and set it as your wallpaper. The trial is free for 7 days.
Sources
Keep a painting like this on your Mac
Art4 lets you browse public-domain paintings by artist, movement, color, and screen shape, read the story behind each one, and set it as your wallpaper, or let it rotate on its own. Try it free for 7 days; if you keep it, it’s a one-time $14. Requires macOS 14 or later.