Adele Bloch-Bauer

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and displayed at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

Until Maria Altmann, a sole heir to the painting began the journey to reclaim what was stolen from her 60 years prior. With the help of lawyer Randol Schoenberg (the grandson of Arnold Schoenberg, an Austrian composer also victimized by the Nazis), Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 1 was returned to Maria Altmann after a seven-year court battle. The portrait that had hung in the Belvedere Gallery for 68 years was finally back where it belonged. The painting eventually was sold to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Gallery in New York for $135 million, where it still hangs.


Sources:
https://neuegalerie.org/content/gustav-klimt-and-adele-bloch-bauer-woman-gold
https://moa.byu.edu/art-stories-maria-altmann-and-the-portrait-of-adele-bloch-bauer