Socialite and model for Gustav Klimt's most famous painting, "The Woman in Gold." Her husband, Ferdinand Bloch, commissioned this portrait of his wife in 1903, and it was first shown in public in 1907. Adele died childless of meningitis and Ferdinand kept the painting in his home along with all the other artwork the family collected. Originally titled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," the name of this painting was changed to obliterate her Jewish identity. In 1938 after the Anschluss, all the artwork in the home was looted by the Nazis, and in 1941, acquired by the Austrian state. Ferdinand died in Zurich shortly after World War II, and his repeated attempts to have the art returned were unsuccessful. In May, 2005, Adele's niece, Maria Altmann of Los Angeles, California, sued the Republic of Austria and won the return of this painting and other artworks. Maria and her husband managed to escape Austria. Adele's portrait now is displayed in the Neve Gallerie in Manhattan, New York.∼Born in Vienna.
Model muse and lover of Gustav Klimt. Adele, also was an idealist that converted the living room of its house, in the central Elisabethstrasse, instead of encounter with the most progressive in the time: the musician Gustav Mahler and their wife, Alma Mahler, the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, the writer Stefan Zweig, the also musician Richard Strauss, the architect Otto Wagner and the own Klimt.
Cause of death: Tubercolosis
Model muse and lover of Gustav Klimt. Adele, also was an idealist that converted the living room of its house, in the central Elisabethstrasse, instead of encounter with the most progressive in the time: the musician Gustav Mahler and their wife, Alma Mahler, the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, the writer Stefan Zweig, the also musician Richard Strauss, the architect Otto Wagner and the own Klimt.
Cause of death: Tubercolosis
Socialite and model for Gustav Klimt's most famous painting, "The Woman in Gold." Her husband, Ferdinand Bloch, commissioned this portrait of his wife in 1903, and it was first shown in public in 1907. Adele died childless of meningitis and Ferdinand kept the painting in his home along with all the other artwork the family collected. Originally titled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer," the name of this painting was changed to obliterate her Jewish identity. In 1938 after the Anschluss, all the artwork in the home was looted by the Nazis, and in 1941, acquired by the Austrian state. Ferdinand died in Zurich shortly after World War II, and his repeated attempts to have the art returned were unsuccessful. In May, 2005, Adele's niece, Maria Altmann of Los Angeles, California, sued the Republic of Austria and won the return of this painting and other artworks. Maria and her husband managed to escape Austria. Adele's portrait now is displayed in the Neve Gallerie in Manhattan, New York.∼Born in Vienna.
Model muse and lover of Gustav Klimt. Adele, also was an idealist that converted the living room of its house, in the central Elisabethstrasse, instead of encounter with the most progressive in the time: the musician Gustav Mahler and their wife, Alma Mahler, the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, the writer Stefan Zweig, the also musician Richard Strauss, the architect Otto Wagner and the own Klimt.
Cause of death: Tubercolosis
Model muse and lover of Gustav Klimt. Adele, also was an idealist that converted the living room of its house, in the central Elisabethstrasse, instead of encounter with the most progressive in the time: the musician Gustav Mahler and their wife, Alma Mahler, the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, the writer Stefan Zweig, the also musician Richard Strauss, the architect Otto Wagner and the own Klimt.
Cause of death: Tubercolosis
Bio by: Bernadette
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