Portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer II

Date: 1912
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Dimensions: 190 x 120

Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881 - 1925) was very cultured lady from Vienna who loved art and was a close friend and patron Gustav Klimt . Klimt it as the only model painted twice. It appears still to much better known Portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I . Both paintings originally was decorated interiors families Bloch-Bauer, during the 2nd World War, however, were confiscated by the Nazis and into the hands of relatives Adeliných again came up in 2006.

Klimt painted picture Portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer II in 1912. Prevailing color of this fine art print is blue and its shape is portrait. Original size is 190 x 120. This art piece is located in Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). As a painter, Klimt represents the best period of Vienna – a time when the works of Sigmund Freud or Mahler were developing, and Vienna was at the very least the Central European centre of culture and education. Klimt’s work combines symbolism and Byzantine features that create the undertone of his Art Nouveau style. Klimt’s images have a special, even anxious, atmosphere that often shows the Freudian idea of ​​erotica in any human movement and action. Klimt paints two-dimensionally, with intense colour while at the same time very gently and with refined dignity. Among Klimt’s famous works are the Water Snakes - two women with stylized, interwoven bodies that evoke the surreal world of fantasy and sensuality. Another masterpiece is Danae, a work inspired by Greek mythology, depicting a girl seized by Zeus, who was turned into a golden rain (Danae later gave birth to Perseus). His paintings often aroused passions and public protests, not only for their content but also for the innovative painting methods - eg. The Girlfriends, an image of two women at a romantic meeting.