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Sep 30, 2020 · The titular character in Woman in Gold is Adele Bloch-Bauer, whose husband, Czech sugar mogul Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, commissioned Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt to paint two...
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 ...
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 War...
Mar 31, 2015 · An article on Tuesday about the Gustav Klimt painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which was looted by the Nazis and is a subject of the new film “Woman in Gold,” about the efforts of Ms. Bloch...
Jun 14, 2016 · The story of Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer, the woman in gold Christie’s role in the remarkable restitution story behind Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece, Adele Bloch-Bauer I — and how, a century after it’s creation, it became the most valuable painting ever sold
May 26, 2024 · Inspired by his visit to Ravenna’s Byzantine gold mosaics, Gustav Klimt was fully immersed in his so-called “Golden Phase” when he began painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The aptly nicknamed Woman in Gold or Lady in Gold epitomizes the multifaceted aesthetic and extremely laborious process of Klimt’s “Golden Phase.”
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...
