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This painting is fabulous.
I happened to have seen Klimt's painting way before I read the book, though I wish it were reversed.
It is such a shame I wasn't aware of the many sides to Klimt, nor did I know the "entire" back story to appreciate and truly understand this piece of art in total. Our docent must have been short on time.
There is much to be learned through this book about the persona of two different people.
Adele Bloch passed away at an early age, I believe from meningitis.
If she were ...more
I happened to have seen Klimt's painting way before I read the book, though I wish it were reversed.
It is such a shame I wasn't aware of the many sides to Klimt, nor did I know the "entire" back story to appreciate and truly understand this piece of art in total. Our docent must have been short on time.
There is much to be learned through this book about the persona of two different people.
Adele Bloch passed away at an early age, I believe from meningitis.
If she were ...more
Nov 06, 2015
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Subtitled: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
This is a story of a portrait of a beautiful Viennese Jewish salon hostess, the now-vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna cultural scene of which it became an emblem, the atrocities of the Nazi regime, and the efforts of Adele’s heirs to recover this and other paintings from an Austrian government that wished to hide the realities of war-time complicity.
My husband and I have reproductions of two Klimt p ...more
This is a story of a portrait of a beautiful Viennese Jewish salon hostess, the now-vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna cultural scene of which it became an emblem, the atrocities of the Nazi regime, and the efforts of Adele’s heirs to recover this and other paintings from an Austrian government that wished to hide the realities of war-time complicity.
My husband and I have reproductions of two Klimt p ...more
The title of the book is a bit misleading, as the first 2/3 really tells more of the story of the Bloch-Bauer family and how their world was destroyed when the Nazi's entered Austria.
Adele Bloch-Bauer was a socialite of the highest order in the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also a woman who craved education and intelligent conversation. She became acquainted with Gustav Klimt at the time when he revolted against the "expectations" of art and became a founding member of ...more
Adele Bloch-Bauer was a socialite of the highest order in the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also a woman who craved education and intelligent conversation. She became acquainted with Gustav Klimt at the time when he revolted against the "expectations" of art and became a founding member of ...more
