Adele Bloch-Bauer was a beautiful young society woman born into a wealthy Jewish family in an era that dictated that she not attend university, as she desired, but make a suitable marriage. She ...
"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed ...
It was a family legend: the glamorous aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, honored with a shimmering gold portrait by Gustav Klimt, with whom she may have shared more than a passion for art during Vienna’s belle ...
Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” (1912), oil on canvas, private collection (courtesy Neue Galerie, New York) The seller of Gustav Klimt’s strikingly colorful portrait of Adele ...
Their faces feel timeless — fixed in textbooks, gallery paintings, and statues — yet history often makes us forget they were ...
"Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold" will be displayed on the second floor of the museum and will be comprised of approximately 50 works, including the Adele Bloch-Bauer I, ...
This article originally appeared on Money. Yesterday the art world was stunned by a report that Oprah Winfrey was, for ten years, the owner of Gustav Klimt’s second-most-famous portrait of the lady in ...