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Adele Bloch-Bauerová
1881 – 1925
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryAdele 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 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."
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 1, 1881
Date of death
January 1, 1925
- Field and occupation
- sběratelka umění
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