Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II | |
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Artist | Gustav Klimt |
Year | 1912 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 190 cm × 120 cm (75 in × 47 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II is a 1912 painting by Gustav Klimt. The work is a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925), a Vienna socialite who was a patron and close friend of Klimt.[1]
In 1907, Klimt completed an earlier portrait of Bloch-Bauer. During World War II, both portraits were among the artworks stolen by the Nazis from the family of Bloch-Bauer. After the war, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II was displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere until 2006, when it was returned to Adele Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann.