Adele Bloch-Bauer
Adele Bloch-Bauer | |
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Adele Bloch Bauer in 1920 | |
| Born | Adele Bauer August 9, 1881 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | January 24, 1925 (aged 43) |
| Nationality | Austria-Hungary |
| Occupation(s) | Socialite, arts patron |
| Relatives | Maria Altmann (niece) |
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Adele Bloch-Bauer (née Bauer; August 9, 1881 – January 24, 1925) 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."