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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.
Altmann's uncle, Czech sugar magnate Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, owned a small collection of artwork by Gustav Klimt, including two portraits of his wife, Adele Bloch-Bauer.In her will, Adele, who died in 1925, had asked her husband to leave the Klimts to the Austrian State Gallery upon his death; a much-debated point later was whether this request should be considered legally binding upon her ...
Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold opened on April 2, 2015, and ran through September 7, 2015. This exhibition coincides with the opening of the historical drama " Woman in Gold ," starring Helen Mirren as Adele Bloch-Bauer 's niece Maria Altmann , and Ryan Reynolds as lawyer Randol Schoenberg .
The painting was temporarily lent to Neue Galerie New York for the exhibition "Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900–1918", temporarily reuniting it with Portrait I. [4] In the fall of 2014, Adele Bloch-Bauer II was given as a special long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. [5]
The movie Woman in Gold is named after this painting. Klimt's website says that Bloch-Bauer was his mistress. He painted her at least twice. [1] [better source needed] The first portrait was a gift to Adele's parents. Some artists also think Adele Bloch-Bauer might be the woman in The Kiss and Judith and the Head of Holofernes. [11]
After Adele's passing in 1925 there was a request found in her will that upon her death Ferdinand was to donate Adele Bloch-Bauer I, dubbed The Gold Portrait, to the Belvedere Palace in Vienna. At the time she was "entirely unaware" of the pending horror that would come when the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938.
Anne-Marie O'Connor is an American journalist and writer who authored The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. This bestselling story is about the eight-year legal battle by Vienna emigre Maria Altmann , represented by Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg , to reclaim five ...
This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (November 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This page is an illustrative list of Gustav Klimt's major paintings, and represents a chronological look at some of his main pictorial production. The list is ordered by year and ...