La Dama De Oro ◉

Painted during Klimt's "Golden Phase," the work is a pinnacle of the Vienna Secession movement.

: In the late 1990s, Maria Altmann, Adele’s niece, began a decade-long legal crusade to reclaim the work from the Austrian government. The case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court ( Republic of Austria v. Altmann ). La Dama De Oro

: Klimt utilized oil paint along with extensive silver and gold leaf, a style inspired by the Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna. Painted during Klimt's "Golden Phase," the work is

: Following the 1938 Anschluss, the painting was stolen from the Bloch-Bauer family. It was later renamed "The Woman in Gold" by the Nazis to strip it of its Jewish identity. Supreme Court ( Republic of Austria v

: The painting is noted for its "flat," decorative composition where Adele's realistic face and hands emerge from a sea of geometric and organic gold motifs. History of Looting and Restitution