Klimt Adele Bloch Bauer Painting

Portrait of adele bloch bauer i also called the lady in gold or the woman in gold is a painting by gustav klimt completed between 1903 and 1907.

Klimt adele bloch bauer painting. Adele bloch bauer possesses the rare distinction as the only person klimt ever painted twice. The art work is made of oil and gold on a canvas print and it is used to display an elaborate and an ornate style or art. Adele bloch bauer i by gustav klimt took the artist a time period of 3 years to complete. Adele bloch bauer ii is a 1912 painting by gustav klimt.

This painting is perhaps most famous not for its artistic quality but because of its scandalous history since inception. Adele bloch bauer was the wife of ferdinand bloch bauer who was a wealthy industrialist who sponsored the arts and supported gustav klimt. Klimt was one of the members of the vienna secesion and these artists were known to break away from the traditional style of art. Ferdinand and adele bloch bauer assembled one of vienna s most renowned art collections which included paintings by masters of vienna s biedermeier period modern sculpture an impressive array of porcelain from the royal vienna porcelain factory and a stellar group of works by klimt including the two portraits of adele bloch bauer and also landscapes.

Adele bloch bauer was the only person to be painted twice by klimt.