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Stolen Beauty

di Laurie Lico Albanese

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"From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings. In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom, Adele embraces Klimt's renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities on the canvas and beyond. Though they enjoy a life where sex and art are just beginning to break through the facade of conventional society, the city is also exhibiting a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism, as political hatred foments in the shadows of Adele's coffee house afternoons and cultural salons. Nearly forty years later, Adele's niece Maria Altmann is a newlywed when the Nazis invade Austria--and overnight, her beloved Vienna becomes a war zone. When her husband is arrested and her family is forced out of their home, Maria must summon the courage and resilience that is her aunt's legacy if she is to survive and keep her family--and their history--alive".--From publisher's description.… (altro)
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Dual timeline story set primarily in Vienna, Austria, about two related women in a Jewish family. The older timeline takes place mostly in the early 1900s and moves forward, and the more recent timeline starts in 1937 during the lead-up to World War II. We follow the lives of Adèle Bloch-Bauer (1881-1925), one of the (real) models for at least two of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s paintings, and Maria Altmann, her (real) niece.

Adele was a woman ahead of her time. She wanted a world of education and freedom, so she married a much older man who told her he would give her both. In the 1930’s, the storyline follows Maria, Adele's niece, during a time of great turmoil. Hitler annexed Austria (1938) and claimed the assets of Jewish citizens under the newly enacted laws of “Aryanization.”

I read this book due to my interest in art and art history. There are a number of historical facts woven into the narrative, but the primary emphasis is on the two women and their relationships with their husbands. There are a few liberties taken by the author with respect to the facts of the lives of the people she represents. I especially appreciated the sections on art. Regular readers of romances will likely enjoy it even more than I did.

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  Castlelass | Jan 24, 2023 |
Albanese detailed prose transports you between the 1900 Vienna art world where everything is beautiful, dazzling and forty years later when Maria (Adele's niece) and her family are forced from their Austrian home by the Nazis.

One of the best and will researched historical fiction reads I've read in a long time this family story of love, survival and sacrifice will have transfixed from the first chapter.

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  ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 |
Albanese detailed prose transports you between the 1900 Vienna art world where everything is beautiful, dazzling and forty years later when Maria (Adele's niece) and her family are forced from their Austrian home by the Nazis.

One of the best and will researched historical fiction reads I've read in a long time this family story of love, survival and sacrifice will have transfixed from the first chapter.

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  ShannonRose4 | Sep 15, 2020 |
After watching a Net Flix movie regarding the theft of one of the most well known of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, I read this book.

Sadly, I slogged through it. I can't recommend it. It is a story of Vienna in 1903 and Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy woman who falls in love with Klimt and allows him to paint her portrait.

The story then forwards to 40 years later when anti-semitism is ever encroaching upon the lives of Jews in Austria. The painting now in the hands of the family of her niece, Maria Altmann, the Nazi's invade their home and possess the painting.

Fortunate to flee their homeland and escape. Years later, the painting is discovered and shown as one of the most interesting in an Austrian museum.

Maria's family now wages a battle with the museum for ownership of their original possession.

Well researched, and interesting, still, I cannot recommend this book. Filled with page after page of way too much unnecessary sexual content, the vivid images are distracting and take away from the beauty of the story.

This could have been a very interesting book, but the author chose to go down a road that left the reader disgusted.

One star
  Whisper1 | Feb 20, 2020 |
From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt’s most remarkable paintings.
  HandelmanLibraryTINR | Jul 29, 2018 |
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"From the dawn of the twentieth century to the devastation of World War II, this exhilarating novel of love, war, art, and family gives voice to two extraordinary women and brings to life the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings. In the dazzling glitter of 1900 Vienna, Adele Bloch-Bauer--young, beautiful, brilliant, and Jewish--meets painter Gustav Klimt. Wealthy in everything but freedom, Adele embraces Klimt's renegade genius as the two awaken to the erotic possibilities on the canvas and beyond. Though they enjoy a life where sex and art are just beginning to break through the facade of conventional society, the city is also exhibiting a disturbing increase in anti-Semitism, as political hatred foments in the shadows of Adele's coffee house afternoons and cultural salons. Nearly forty years later, Adele's niece Maria Altmann is a newlywed when the Nazis invade Austria--and overnight, her beloved Vienna becomes a war zone. When her husband is arrested and her family is forced out of their home, Maria must summon the courage and resilience that is her aunt's legacy if she is to survive and keep her family--and their history--alive".--From publisher's description.

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