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Maria Altmann was born Maria Victoria Bloch on February 18, 1916, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Marie Therese (née Bauer 1874–1961) and Gustav Bloch (1862–1938). [ 2 ] The family name was changed to Bloch-Bauer the following year. [ 2 ][ 3 ]
Feb 8, 2011 · Born Maria Viktoria Bloch-Bauer in Vienna on Feb. 18, 1916, Altmann was the youngest of five children of Therese Bauer and Gustav Bloch. Her mother’s sister, Adele, married Gustav’s...
- Rumors That Adele and Gustav Klimt Were Lovers
- If There Was An Affair, It Was Probably Short-Lived
- The Famous Portrait Took Gustav Klimt Three Years to Complete
- Adele Bloch-Bauer’S Deformed Finger
- The Most Spectacular View of The Painting Is from Underneath
- Some Considered Klimt’s Art Pornographic
- Adele Lost Three Babies
- Maria Altmann’s Husband, Fredrick, Detained at Death Camp
- Maria Altmann Became The American Cashmere Sweater Queen
Gustav Klimt was known for being a playboy, taking many, many lovers. Is it possible he seduced the lovely Adele Bloch-Bauer (Antje Traue), the real woman in gold featured in the above portrait, during one of those long portrait sessions? In 2006, Adele’s niece, Maria Altmann, told The New York Timesabout asking her own mother if Adele and Klimt ha...
Some art historians claim that if you compare the two commissioned portraits of Adele, she looks incredibly sensual in the first painting with her full red lips, come-hither eyes and bare shoulder all surrounded in the decadence of gold leaf. The second portrait, painted five years later, shows a more matronly Adele, body covered up to her neck, an...
Czech sugar mogul Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, uncle to Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), hired Gustav Klimt to paint two portraits of his wife, Adele (Maria’s aunt). The first and most famous of the two that later became known as “Woman in Gold” took Klimt three long, painstaking years to complete. It was finally finished in 1907.
The odd, tangled way in which Adele is clasping her hands is an effort to hide a misshapen digit that if painted accurately, may have belied the perfect image of youthful feminine beauty. Adele was 25 years old when the painting was commissioned.
Maria Altman’s real-life lawyer, E. Randol Shoenberg (Ryan Reynolds in the film), recently told the Times of Israelthat viewing the painting in person is a totally different experience than looking at a print. “If you go down on the ground and you look up, it changes the whole picture because of the overlay of the gold leaf; you can see the texture...
Klimt was commissioned in 1894 to execute three paintings to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna. After taking over six years to complete them, many conservative entities considered the paintings — “Philosophy,” “Medicine” and “Jurisprudence” — to be overtly sexual in nature. They were never displayed to the public an...
According to The New York Times, Adele gave birth to three babies. Sadly, one died within three days and the other two died within hours. Adele herself died of meningitis in 1925 at the age of 44.
Adele’s niece, Maria, married an opera singer named Fredrick Altmann in 1937. After the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, Fredrick was held at Dachau concentration camp in an effort to put pressure on his brother, Bernhard Altmann, to allow Germans to take over his booming textile factory. Having already fled to London, Bernhard signed over his factor...
After Maria’s brother-in-law, Bernhard, started a new textile factory in Liverpool, England, he sent Maria a cashmere sweater to see if Americans might like the fine, soft wool that wasn’t available in the States at the time. Maria took the sweater to Kerr’s Department Store in Beverly Hills. After they began to sell them, other stores across Ameri...
Dec 20, 1998 · Maria Altmann was pregnant with her first child, Charles Gustav, during her migration to the United States. “I tell him, he was like a British cashmere sweater, manufactured in England and ...
Apr 3, 2015 · A year earlier, Adele Bloch-Bauer’s niece Maria had married Fritz Altmann, a handsome Polish-Jewish opera singer who was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp after the Nazi takeover.
- Tom Tugend
Apr 2, 2015 · A new movie tells the true story of Maria Altmann, who fought her way to the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Austrian government to return a painting of her aunt.
Feb 8, 2011 · To Altmann, her Aunt Adele was a serious woman, one who had no use for children or the chit-chat of petty women. She would float around the house, which was filled with chamber music, in...
