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-B
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Adele Bloch-Bauer, c. 1910
Detail of Judith I (1901), for which Adele modelled
The mosaic of Empress Theodora at the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna
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
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
…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. Adele died in 1925; her…
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.