Adele Bloch-Bauer was a beautiful young society woman born into a wealthy Jewish family in an era that dictated that she not attend university, as she desired, but make a suitable marriage. She ...

"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed ...

All antique jewels have stories—sometimes deeply rooted in family lore, sometimes hinted at with a mysterious inscription, sometimes infuriatingly silent, waiting for our imaginations to fill in the ...

It was a family legend: the glamorous aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, honored with a shimmering gold portrait by Gustav Klimt, with whom she may have shared more than a passion for art during Vienna’s belle ...

Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim family possessions that were seized by the Nazis. Among them is a famous portrait of ...

Gustav Klimt, “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II” (1912), oil on canvas, private collection (courtesy Neue Galerie, New York) The seller of Gustav Klimt’s strikingly colorful portrait of Adele ...

There’s a stolen painting at the center of “Woman in Gold,” but this isn’t a heist picture. After all, when most movie thieves take a pricy piece of art, it doesn’t wind up hanging on a wall for all ...

"Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold" will be displayed on the second floor of the museum and will be comprised of approximately 50 works, including the Adele Bloch-Bauer I, ...

This article originally appeared on Money. Yesterday the art world was stunned by a report that Oprah Winfrey was, for ten years, the owner of Gustav Klimt’s second-most-famous portrait of the lady in ...