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Jun 23, 2021 · Adele Bloch-Bauer was born in Vienna on August 9, 1881, the youngest daughter of the seven children of the banker Moritz Bauer (1840–1905) and Jeannette Bauer née Honig (1844–1922). Her father was the general director of the influential Viennese Bank association and the president of the Orient railway company.
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.
Mar 31, 2015 · What aided in the return of Adele Bloch-Bauer’s portrait was its location in a federal museum, said E. Randol Schoenberg, Ms. Altmann’s lawyer. In most instances, he said, the missing works ...
This "golden style" depiction of Adele Bloch-Bauer is arguably Klimt's most famous portrait. She was the only sitter that Klimt painted twice in full-legth. Klimt received the commission in 1903 but did not complete the painting until 1907, when it was presented in Mannheim that same year. Klimt executed hundreds of preparatory sketches in preparation for the final composition and tried posing ...
Jun 23, 2015 · Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis. A film now tells the story of Adele's niece, who fought to recover her family's paintings more than a half century later.
Efforts to reclaim the Bloch-Bauer fortune were unsuccessful until the 1998 Art Restitution Law was enacted in Austria. After years of legal disputes, an Austrian arbitration panel ruled in favor of the Bloch-Bauer heirs in January 2006. Klimt’s "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" was then acquired by the Neue Galerie New York.
Sep 5, 2014 · Adele Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy industrialist in Vienna, where Klimt lived and worked. Completed in 1912, the composition emphasizes Bloch-Bauer’s social station within Vienna’s cultural elite. Her towering figure, in opulent dress, is set against a jewel-toned backdrop of nearly abstract patterned blocks ...
