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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in ...
Learn about Klimt's masterpiece of the Golden Style, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, and its historic provenance. Watch a video by Neue Galerie director Renée Price on the painting and its restitution to the heirs.
Sep 20, 2016 · The painting later became an icon of justice – the 2015 film Woman in Gold is the Hollywood version of the tale of the painting’s confiscation from the Jewish Bloch-Bauer family during World...
May 26, 2024 · The aptly nicknamed Woman in Gold or Lady in Gold epitomizes the multifaceted aesthetic and extremely laborious process of Klimt’s “Golden Phase.” Like most of Klimt’s portraits, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I features a realistically rendered human figure, immersed in a deliberately non-representational—and highly decorative ...
Gustav Klimt’s 1907 "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" is his most famous portrait and the pinnacle of his “Golden Style.” It can be read as a secular icon and includes African, Asian, Byzantine,...
May 25, 2012 · Learn about the history and artistic quality of this famous painting, which was commissioned by a wealthy sugar industrialist and seized by the Nazis. Find out how it was returned to the heirs of the original owner and sold for a record price.
Jun 23, 2015 · In Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann — an octogenarian Jewish refugee who fought to recover the Gustav Klimt paintings the Nazis seized from her family in Vienna at the...
