The Lady in Gold: The Remarkable Story of Klimt’s Nazi-Looted Painting and its Recovery
Hosted By: Sousa Mendes Foundation
PORTRAIT OF ADELE BLOCH-BAUER I (also called THE LADY IN GOLD or THE WOMAN IN GOLD) is a painting by GUSTAV KLIMT. 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 Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. After a seven-year legal claim, which included a hearing before the US Supreme Court, an arbitration committee in Vienna agreed that the painting had indeed been stolen from the family and should be returned.
Meet the American journalist ANNE-MARIE O’CONNOR who first broke the story to US audiences. She will be in dialogue with HANNAH LESSING, an expert on Austria and the Holocaust.
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