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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.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907). Oil, silver and gold on canvas, 140 × 140 cm (55.1 × 55.1 in). Neue Galerie, New York City. Items portrayed in this file ...
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] Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, painted in 1912.
1903–1907 – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (oil on canvas, 138 cm × 138 cm) Both the current holder of the portrait—the Neue Galerie New York—and the art historian Elana Shapira describe how the background and gown contain symbols suggestive of erotica, including triangles, eggs, shapes of eyes and almonds. 18
Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), which sold for a record $135 million in 2006, Neue Galerie, New York In 1911 his painting Death and Life received first prize in the world exhibitions in Rome. In 1915 Anna, his mother, died.
In 1907, Klimt completed an earlier portrait of Bloch-Bauer. During World War II, both portraits were among the artworks stolen by the Nazis from the family of Bloch-Bauer. After the war, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere until 2006, when it was returned to Adele Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria ...
The Kiss (German: Der Kuss) is an oil-on-canvas painting with added gold leaf, silver and platinum by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. [3] It was painted at some point in 1907 and 1908, during the height of what scholars call his "Golden Period". [4]
The paintings included Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the portrait of Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, which had been renamed the Woman in Gold. Stealing Klimt recounts Altmann's youth in early 20th century Vienna, her escape from the Nazis and her struggle to recover the five paintings.