The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
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The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav
Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic
portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish
salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it;
the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the
strange twisted fate that befell it. The Lady in Gold, considered
an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most
recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when
Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the
most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society
portrait. Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for The Washington Post,
formerly of the Los Angeles Times, tells the galvanizing story of
the Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer, a dazzling Viennese Jewish
society figure; daughter of the head of one of the largest banks in
the Hapsburg Empire, head of the Oriental Railway, whose Orient
Express went from Berlin to Constantinople; wife of Ferdinand
Bauer, sugar-beet baron. The Bloch-Bauers were art patrons, and
Adele herself was considered a rebel of fin de siecle Vienna (she
wanted to be educated, a notion considered degenerate in a society
that believed women being out in the world went against their
feminine nature). The author describes how Adele inspired the
portrait and how Klimt made more than a hundred sketches of
her--simple pencil drawings on thin manila paper. And O'Connor
writes of Klimt himself, son of a failed gold engraver, shunned by
arts bureaucrats, called an artistic heretic in his time, a genius
in ours. She writes of the Nazis confiscating the portrait of Adele
from the Bloch-Bauers' grand palais; of the Austrian government
putting the painting on display, stripping Adele's Jewish surname
from it so that no clues to her identity (nor any hint of her
Jewish origins) would be revealed. Nazi officials called the
painting, The Lady in Gold and proudly exhibited it in Vienna's
Baroque Belvedere Palace, consecrated in the 1930s as a Nazi
institution. The author writes of the painting, inspired by the
Byzantine mosaics Klimt had studied in Italy, with their exotic
symbols and swirls, the subject an idol in a golden shrine. We see
how, sixty years after it was stolen by the Nazis, the Portrait of
Adele Bloch-Bauer became the subject of a decade-long litigation
between the Austrian government and the Bloch-Bauer heirs, how and
why the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, and how the
Court's decision had profound ramifications in the art world. A
riveting social history; an illuminating and haunting look at
turn-of-the-century Vienna; a brilliant portrait of the evolution
of a painter; a masterfully told tale of suspense. And at the heart
of it, the Lady in Gold--the shimmering painting, and its equally
irresistible subject, the fate of each forever intertwined.
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