Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt · 1907
The story
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 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 painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941, and displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere. The portrait is the final and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. It was the first of two depictions of Adele by Klimt—the second was completed in 1912; these were two of several works by the artist that the Bloch-Bauer family owned.
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt
- Date
- 1907
- Collection
- Neue Galerie, New York, United States
- Movement
- Art Nouveau
- Medium
- gold, silver, oil paint
- Size
- 138 × 162 cm
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