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: 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 ).

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

: 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. : In the late 1990s, Maria Altmann, Adele’s

The "Lady in Gold" became a symbol of the systematic art theft perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II. Altmann )

(The Woman in Gold) refers primarily to the iconic 1907 masterpiece by Gustav Klimt, titled Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I , as well as the high-profile legal battle and subsequent 2015 film detailing its restitution. The Masterpiece: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

: Adele Bloch-Bauer, a prominent Jewish socialite and patron of the arts in Vienna, was the only model Klimt painted twice.