December 2010
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How does an innocent portrait become one of the...
Adele Bloch-Bauer sat with Klimt for 2 portraits, the first of which; “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” was finished in 1907 and eventually became the most famous of all of his works.
Before Adele died at the young age of 43 she requested that her 2 Klimt portraits as well as her 3 landscapes be given to the Austrian state collection. When the Nazi’s took over Austria her husband (Ferdinand...