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  1. www.biography.com › authors-writers › woman-in-goldMaria Altmann: The Real Story Behind 'Woman in Gold' - Biography

    Sep 30, 2020 · 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 portraits of ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_IPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I - Wikipedia

    Location. Neue Galerie, New York. 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.

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  4. www.npr.org › 2015/06/23 › 416518188Immortalized As 'The Woman In Gold,' How A Young Jew ... - NPR

    Jun 23, 2015 · Fine Art. Immortalized As 'The Woman In Gold,' How A Young Jew Became A Secular Icon. Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was seized by the Nazis at the outset of World War II. A ...

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  5. www.christies.com › en › storiesAdele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt’s ‘woman in gold’ | Christie's

    Jun 15, 2016 · The mesmerising radiance of Adele Bloch-Bauer’s gaze in Gustav Klimt’s gold-flecked 1907 portrait of her provides no hint of the turbulent fate that lay in store for the painting. Commissioned by her sugar-industrialist husband Ferdinand, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I took Klimt three years to create, and was completed amid speculation that the Austrian artist and his high-society ...

  6. www.nytimes.com › 2015/03/31 › artsThe Story Behind ‘Woman in Gold’: Nazi Art Thieves and One ...

    Mar 31, 2015 · April 1, 2015. : An article on Tuesday about the Gustav Klimt painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which was looted by the Nazis and is a subject of the new film “Woman in Gold,” about the ...

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Adele_Bloch-BauerAdele Bloch-Bauer - Wikipedia

    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]

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  9. www.npr.org › 2015/04/02 › 396688350After Nazi Plunder, A Quest To Bring Home The 'Woman In Gold'

    Apr 2, 2015 · As for the Woman in Gold, known formally as Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, eventually I would go to see it in New York. My husband and I just stood there transfixed by its beauty. My husband and ...