# Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KLIMT, Gustav]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 190 x 120 cm ## Commentary This painting is one of two formal portraits that Gustav Klimt made of Adele Bloch-Bauer, an important patron of the artist. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy industrialist in Vienna, where Klimt lived and worked. Completed in 1912, the composition emphasizes Bloch-Bauer's social station within Vienna's cultural elite. Her towering figure, in opulent dress, is set against a jewel-toned backdrop of nearly abstract patterned blocks that suggest a richly decorated domestic interior. In 1938, the Nazis took possession of this portrait along with other works of art in the Bloch-Bauer family's collection \(including Adele Bloch-Bauer I, now in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York\). In 2006, after years of legal negotiations, the works were returned to the Bloch-Bauer heirs and subsequently sold to other collections. ## 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]()