Just finished this fantastic tale of the family and fights around Gustav Klimt's glorious portrait of noted Viennese Jewish society and cultural philanthropist Adele Block-Bauer, which now hangs in the Neue Gallery in New York City, where I viewed the painting and bought the book.The story is a p...
I would probably give this book three and a half stars. It is not as well written as Hare with the Amber Eyes (which I highly recommend), but it is fascinating account of Klimt, Adele Bloch, and the tragic history of the famous portrait which Austria returned to her niece, Maria Altmann in 2006...
Earlier that day she had stood on the stage where she would sing in front of millions of people, wearing a Juicy Couture tracksuit that a stylist had thrown her into, with her hair in rollers. Catherine had struggled through the first part of the song and was nervous that she was going to mess up...
She angled for the chore of emptying the chamber bucket because it was the social event of the day, where prisoners chatted and got to know each other. Some partisans befriended her, and asked her to help them. Nelly got permission to see a dentist. A prison guard had to accompany her, and since ...