This historical novel is about Adele Bloch-Bauer who was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a sugar baron who supported the arts. Gustav Klimt was the painter who immortalized Adele twice in his paintings. This story is based on real characters but fictionalized so as such in this story not only did...
Love, war, and art. STOLEN BEAUTY moves from 1900 to 1938 as we follow the lives of Adele and Maria. In 1900, Adele's story was about her life and how she became fascinated with the painter Gustav Klimt and that era of art. In 1938, the story is told of Maria, Adele's niece, newly married and ta...