Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
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Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer was an Austrian banker and sugar business magnate who owned one of the most extensive art collections in Europe, most of which was looted by the Nazis during the Anschluss. Husba
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer c. 1935
Adele Bloch-Bauer
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Adele Bloch-Bauer was a Viennese socialite, salon hostess, and patron of the arts from Austria-Hungary, married to sugar industrialist Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. A Jewish woman, she is most well known for
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
…who owned one of the most extensive art collections in Europe, most of which was looted by the Nazis during the Anschluss. Husband of salon hostess Adele Bloch-Bauer and uncle of Jewish refugee Maria Altmann, he commissioned Gustav Klimt to paint Adele Bloch-Bauer I and Adele Bloch-Bauer II, the former being the…
Adele Bloch-Bauer in 1920
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, painted in 1907. The movie Woman in Gold is named after this painting.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, painted in 1912.