Adele Bloch-Bauer

Adele Bloch-Bauer
Adele Bloch Bauer in 1920
Born
Adele Bauer

August 9, 1881
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedJanuary 24, 1925(1925-01-24) (aged 43)
NationalityAustria-Hungary
Occupation(s)Socialite, arts patron
RelativesMaria Altmann (niece)
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Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) 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 being the subject of two of artist Gustav Klimt's paintings: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, and the fate of the paintings during and after the Nazi Holocaust. She has been called "the Austrian Mona Lisa."[1]

  1. ^ "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 by Gustav Klimt". Gustav Klimt. Retrieved May 20, 2021.