The "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" is a 1907 painting by Gustav Klimt. The first of two portraits Klimt painted of Bloch-Bauer, it has been referred to as the final and most fully representative work of his golden phase. Adele Bloch-Bauer (18811925) was a refined art-loving Viennese salon lady, a patron and close friend of Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. - There is a border around the image. Image size is correct. Many sizes available.