# Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KLIMT, Gustav]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil, silver and gold on canvas, 140 x 140 cm ## Commentary For most of his life, Klimt derived a comfortable income from portraiture. The majority of his sitters were the wives and sisters of the Viennese, often Jewish, <i>haute bourgeoisie.</i> He twice portrayed Adele Bloch-Bauer \(1907 and 1912, Neue Galerie, New York and Belvedere, Vienna\). The first version marks the height of his gold-encrusted manner of painting, of which The Kiss is the other outstanding example. The first version originally belonged to the Bloch-Bauer couple; between 1933 and 1941, it was nationalized by the Austrian State. In 2006, the portrait was restituted to the family and later transferred to Neue Galerie in New York. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Altar of Dionysos]() - [Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall \(detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall \(detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: centre wall]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 1\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 2, detail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: left wall \(part 2\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 1\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 2, deatail\)]() - [Beethoven Frieze: right wall \(part 2\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()