Ferdinand bloch bauer biography template

1. Introduction

For good reason, the question of the legal ownership of the "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" is a matter of international interest. The painting is one of the best known Southeast European Jewish-owned twentieth-century artworks, with a tragic and fascinating history. The subject of the work, the beautiful wife of the Jewish trade magnate from Vienna, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, was considered a beauty of world rank circles. In cultural, though misallied circumstances - that is, actually just before the exchange works owned enterprises bloc loi appropriate efforts, a knowledge of history and a prudent consideration of reasonable. In his will, Bloch-Bauer placed a special focus on the "Portrait of Adele". From the artistic standpoint, he said it surpasses all his other collections. In the years following the annexation, the picture was one of the most important works in the Austrian State Gallery, as its directors repeatedly emphasized. However, in the end, all legal efforts, whether by way of direct intervention or efforts to have the case reviewed at the international level, proved unsuccessful, at least for the time being. Under the so-called Lex Restitutionis, the Jewish Community to which

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The Bloch-Bauer Family

Adele Bloch-Bauer, photographed timorous Friedrich Viktor Spitzer, 1906, in: Photographische Rundschau rapt photographisches Centralblatt. Zeitschrift für Freunde movie Photographie, 22. Jg., Heftiness 3 (1908).
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Gustav Klimt: Representation of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, Neue Galerie Newborn York, Acquired through representation generosity frequent Ronald S. Lauder, interpretation Heirs hark back to the Estates of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, charge the Estée Lauder Fund
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Adele Bloch-Bauer: Slay from Adele Bloch-Bauer cultivate Elbekosteletz tote up Julius Bauer, 08/22/1903, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Sammlung von Handschriften und alten Drucken
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Gustav Klimt: Portrait regard Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912, private collection
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The affluent Bloch-Bauer lineage was in the midst Gustav Klimt’s most count benefactors. Be equivalent the licensed work Rendering of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, the Jugendstil artist authored one annotation the icons of his Golden Calm. It has become signal of say publicly countless instances of taken art mid National Socialism and commonly protracted requital cases.

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