The "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" is a famous piece of art by Gustav Klimt. The subject of the painting is Adele Bloch-Bauer, wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer. Klimt was commissioned by the ...

Adele Bloch-Bauer was a beautiful young society woman ... image of Bloch-Bauer loomed above him on the wall. In youthful photos, Altmann shares her aunt’s striking beauty. Adele was her mother ...

All 11 pictures, as it turns out, are of Viennese Jews born or married to bankers, sugar magnates, lawyers or doctors. Among them, of course, is banker's wife Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of two ...

Plagued by ill heath and tragedy, Adele Bloch-Bauer (left) was nevertheless a stalwart patron of the arts. Austria’s Gustav Klimt spent four years on his “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer ...

It was a family legend: the glamorous aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, honored with a shimmering gold portrait by Gustav Klimt, with whom she may have shared more than a passion for art during Vienna’s ...

Oprah Winfrey made a pretty penny selling Gustav Klimt‘s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912) for $150 million in 2016, reports Katya Kazakina for Bloomberg. The buyer is allegedly an ...

Gustav Klimt'sThe Kiss is one of the most famous paintings in history — yet it's the artist's privately commissioned portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer that has become the artist's most infamous ...

All antique jewels have stories—sometimes deeply rooted in family lore, sometimes hinted at with a mysterious inscription, sometimes infuriatingly silent, waiting for our imaginations to fill in ...