Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
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The story behind the motif
Poster featuring the painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt. It took Klimt three years to complete the painting. The painting portrays the Jewish socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925) at the age of 26.
After the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, the painting was confiscated from its Jewish owner, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. The Nazis sold the painting to the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, which renamed it Woman in Gold in order to conceal that the sitter was Jewish.
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann (1916–2011) sued the Austrian state in 2000 and in 2006 recovered Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and four other Klimt paintings in accordance with the Washington Principles. In 2006, she sold the painting at an auction in New York for 135 million dollars, making it the most expensive painting ever sold up to that time.
Artist: Gustav Klimt | Created: 1907
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