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Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) was a Viennese socialite, salon hostess, and patron of the arts from Austria-Hungary, married to sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer.
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 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...
Adele Bloch-Bauer was an avid art patron at the centre of Vienna’s cultural life. And when she sat for a portrait by Gustav Klimt, she was transformed into an icon, writes Kimberly Bradley.
Adele Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy society woman, hostess of a renowned Viennese salon, art patron, and philanthropist. Her famous portraits by Gustav Klimt are historical witnesses to the significance of Jewish patronage during the Golden Era of fin-de-siècle Vienna.
This intimate exhibition is devoted to the close relationship that existed between artist and patron – Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and one of his key subjects and patrons, Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925).
Upon securing the Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait commission, Gustav Klimt embarked on a laborious painting process spanning four years. Hundreds of sketches and a few specially-made costumes later, Klimt unveiled the final version of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in 1907.
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, and...
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. Storylines; 20th & 21st Century Art
Visitors from around the globe flock to Neue Galerie New York to see a very special lady, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), popularly referred to as the “Woman in Gold.” Few paintings have captured the public’s imagination so thoroughly.