Editing Gustav Klimt (section)

==Legacy==

===Posthumous auction history===
{{Update|part=section|date=May 2025|reason=Paragraph on sale of ''Prince William Nil Nortey Dowuona'' (1897) needs updating}}[[File:Klimt-Villa 2013 Atelier 02.jpg|thumb|Klimt's reconstructed studio (2013) at the [[Klimt Villa]]. On display are copies of the paintings ''Woman with Fan'' and ''The Bride'' (both c. 1917–18)]]
Klimt's paintings have brought some of the highest prices recorded for individual works of art. In November 2003, Klimt's ''Landhaus am Attersee'' sold for [[United States dollar|$]]29,128,000,<ref>{{Citation |first=Nina |last=Siegal |url=http://dks.thing.net/NS-KlimtSetsRecord.html |title=Klimt sets record |publisher=Thing |newspaper=Bloomberg |date=6 November 2003 |access-date=4 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504024626/http://dks.thing.net/NS-KlimtSetsRecord.html |archive-date=4 May 2006}}.</ref> but that sale was soon eclipsed by prices paid for Willem de Kooning's ''Woman III'' and later Klimt's own ''[[Adele Bloch-Bauer II]]'', the latter of which sold for $150&nbsp;million in 2016. More frequently than paintings, however, the artist's works on paper can be found on the art market. The art market database [[Artprice]] lists 67 auction entries for paintings, but 1564 for drawings and watercolours.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.artprice.com/artist/15495/gustav-klimt |title=Gustav Klimt on Artprice |website=www.artprice.com |access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref> The most expensive drawing sold so far was "Reclining Female Nude Facing Left", which was made between 1914 and 1915 and sold in London in 2008 for {{GBP|505,250}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2008/impressionist-modern-works-on-paper-l08009/lot.108.html |title=Gustav Klimt Auction at Sotheby's |website=www.sothebys.com |access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref> However, the majority of the art trade traditionally takes place privately<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/arts/global-art-market.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/arts/global-art-market.html |archive-date=2 January 2022 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Global Art Market |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 March 2017 |access-date=30 January 2019 |last1=Reyburn |first1=Scott}}{{cbignore}}</ref> through galleries such as Wienerroither & Kohlbacher, which specialize in the trade with original works by Gustav Klimt and [[Egon Schiele]] and regularly present these at monographic exhibitions and international art fairs.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2959580/gustav-klimt-retrospective-at-shepherd-wk-galleries-new-york |title=Gustav Klimt retrospective in New York |website=www.blouinartinfo.com |access-date=30 January 2019 |archive-date=30 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130220948/https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2959580/gustav-klimt-retrospective-at-shepherd-wk-galleries-new-york |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/what-to-look-out-for-at-tefaf-new-york-spring/ |title=Gustav Klimt at TEFAF art fair |website=www.apollo-magazine.com |date=30 April 2018 |access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref>

In 2006, the 1907 portrait, ''[[Adele Bloch-Bauer I]]'', was purchased for the [[Neue Galerie New York]] by [[Ronald Lauder]] reportedly for US$135&nbsp;million, surpassing [[Picasso]]'s 1905 ''[[Garçon à la pipe|Boy With a Pipe]]'' (sold 5 May 2004 for $104&nbsp;million), as the highest reported price ever paid for a painting up to that point.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Adele Bloch-Bauer, Gustav Klimt's 'woman in gold' |url=https://www.christies.com/en/stories/gustav-klimts-woman-in-gold-af6b7e85385e46248b911d4f5533cfde |work=christies.com}}</ref>

On 7 August 2006, [[Christie's]] auction house announced it was handling the sale of the remaining four works by Klimt that were recovered by [[Maria Altmann]] and her co-heirs after their long legal battle against Austria (see ''[[Republic of Austria v. Altmann]]''). Altmann's fight to regain her family's paintings has been the subject of a number of documentary films, including ''Adele's Wish''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.adeleswish.com/ |title=Home |website=Adele's Wish |access-date=24 October 2016}}</ref> Her struggle also became the subject of the dramatic film ''[[Woman in Gold (film)|Woman in Gold]]'', a movie inspired by ''Stealing Klimt'', the documentary featuring Maria Altmann herself.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stealingklimt.com/ |title=Stealing Klimt |website=www.stealingklimt.com |access-date=24 October 2016}}</ref> The portrait of ''[[Adele Bloch-Bauer II]]'' was sold at auction in November 2006 for $88million, the third-highest-priced piece of art at auction at the time.<ref name="Michaud 2006-11-09">{{Citation |first=Christopher |last=Michaud |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-arts-auction-idUKN0920976420061109 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153909/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-arts-auction-idUKN0920976420061109 |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 March 2016 |title=Christie's stages record art sale |newspaper=Reuter's |date=9 November 2006 |access-date=3 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="bslaw 2006-11-09">{{cite web |url=http://www.bslaw.net/news/061109.html |title=$496 Million Auction Shatters Record |date=9 November 2006 |last=Vogel |first=Carol |website=bslaw.net |publisher=Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP |location=Los Angeles, US |access-date=3 November 2014}}</ref> ''The Apple Tree I'' (c. 1912) sold for $33million, ''Birch Forest'' (1903) sold for $40.3million,{{Sfn | Kinsella | 2007 | p = 111}} and ''Houses in Unterach on Lake Atter'' (1916) sold for $31million. Collectively, the five restituted paintings netted more than $327million.{{Sfn | Kinsella | 2007 | p = 112}}  The painting ''Litzlberg am Attersee'' was auctioned for $40.4million in November 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/04iht-Melikian04.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220102/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/arts/04iht-Melikian04.html |archive-date=2 January 2022 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Klimt Painting Sells for $40.4 Million |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=[[Souren Melikian]] |date=3 November 2011 |access-date=6 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Klimt's last painting, ''[[Lady with a Fan (Klimt)|Lady with a Fan]]'' (''Dame mit Fächer'', 1918), was sold by [[Sotheby's]] in London on 27 June 2023 for UK£85.3M (US$108.4) to a Hong Kong collector, the highest-priced artwork ever sold at auction in Europe.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jasmine |last=Andersson |title=Klimt's final portrait sells for record £85.3m |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66036688 |work=BBC News |date=28 June 2023 |accessdate=29 June 2023}}</ref>

[[File:El príncipe Guillermo Nii Nortey Dowuona - Gustav Klimt.jpg|thumb|''Prince William Nil Nortey Dowuona'' (1897)]]

In 2021, the portrait of a young African man ''Prince William Nil Nortey Dowuona'' (1897), which had been lost after the [[World War II|Second World War]], was rediscovered and restored by the Wienerroither & Kohlbacher gallery in Vienna, which is offering it for sale until 25 March 2025 with a starting bid of €15million ($16.4m). The painting has been authenticated by Alfred Weidinger, considered one of the greatest experts on Klimt. The young man in the portrait was a dignitary of the African [[Osu caste system|Osu]] tribe, brought to Vienna as a kind of "anthropological curiosity". The painting remained in Klimt's studio until his death, until it was offered for sale at 15,000 [[Austrian krone|Austrian crowns]] in 1923. It had entered the collection of the Viennese Jew Ernestine Klein by 1928. Klein and her husband Felix also converted Klimt's former studio into a villa. She was forced into exile in 1938, after the Nazi [[Anschluss]].<ref name="Osu#">{{Cite web |title=A Rediscovered Gustav Klimt Portrait of an African Prince Is On Offer at TEFAF Maastricht |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lost-gustav-klimt-portrait-african-prince-tefaf-maastricht-2621432 |website=artnet.com |access-date=19 March 2025}}</ref> The painting has been subject to a restitution settlement with Ernestine Klein's heirs.<ref name="Osu#" />

===Visual art===
[[File:Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Gustav Klimt – ''Beech Grove I'', 1902]]
According to the writer Frank Whitford: "Klimt of course, is an important artist—he's a very ''popular'' artist—but in terms of the history of art, he's a very unimportant artist. Although he sums up so much in his work, about the society in which he found himself—in art historical terms his effect was negligible. So he's an artist really in a cul-de-sac."<ref>Whitford, speaking on ''The Kiss: The Private Life of a Masterpiece'', BBC TV</ref> Klimt's work had a strong influence on the paintings of [[Egon Schiele]], with whom he would collaborate to found the ''Kunsthalle'' (Hall of Art) in 1917, to try to keep local artists from going abroad. Artists who reinterpreted Klimt's work include [[Slovaks|Slovak]] artist [[Rudolf Fila]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Fila interpretatio Klimt |last1=Fila |last2=Michalovič |first1=Rudolf |first2=Peter |publisher=Slovak Art |date=2007 |isbn=9788080852979}}</ref>

===Legacy===
Already during his lifetime, Klimt influenced other artists, such as the Italian [[Liberty style]] artist [[Galileo Chini]] (1873–1956).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sanna |first1=Angela |last2=Farina |first2=Violetta |title=Art Nouveau |language=fr |publisher=Editions Place des Victoires |location=Paris |year=2011 |isbn=978-2-8099-0418-5}}</ref> Klimt was exhibited at the 1910 [[Venice Biennale]]. Chini and [[Vittorio Zecchin]] (1878–1947) created a number of panels in 1914 for the Venice Hotel Terminus called "La Primavera" and "Mille e una notte".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/136950|title=Vittorio Zecchin e Galileo Chini Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna Ca' Pesaro Venezia|website=1995-2015.undo.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.finestresullarte.info/opere-e-artisti/vittorio-zecchin-le-mille-e-una-notte-klimt-italiano|title=Dalle Mille e una notte a Venezia: le principesse di Vittorio Zecchin, il Klimt italiano|website=www.finestresullarte.info}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/venezia/mostra-spirito-klimtiano-galileo-chini-vittorio-zecchin-e-la-grande-decorazione-a-venezia-1028|title=Spirito klimtiano: Galileo Chini, Vittorio Zecchin e la grande decorazione a Venezia - Mostra - Venezia - Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna - Arte.it|first=ARTE it Srl-|last=info@arte.it|website=www.arte.it}}</ref> These were later exhibited in the [[Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Art Museum]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artepiu.info/galileo-chini-primavera/ |title=Galileo Chini il mito della Primavera – Museo Boncompagni Roma |date=17 April 2020}}</ref>

In 1972 the [[Vienna State Opera]] presented a new production of ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'', an opera by [[Oscar Wilde]] and [[Richard Strauss]], in a Klimt-inspired stage setting and costumes by [[Jürgen Rose]]. This production, directed by [[Boleslaw Barlog]] and first conducted by [[Karl Böhm]], became extremely popular and stayed in the repertoire for nearly fifty years. It was shown in 265 performances and went on tour to [[Teatro Comunale, Florence|Florence]], Washington and twice in Japan.<ref>Online-Merker: ''[https://onlinemerker.com/wien-staatsoper-salome-die-letzte-und-die-beste-der-serie/ WIEN/ Staatsoper: SALOME – die letzte und die beste der Serie]'', 25 January 2015</ref><ref>Vienna State Opera, Archive of all Performances: ''[https://archiv.wiener-staatsoper.at/search/work/162/production/176 Salome | Neuproduktion vom 22.12.1972]'', retrieved on 24 August 2023</ref>

In 2006 an Austrian art-house biographical film about his life, ''[[Klimt (film)|Klimt]]'', was released with [[John Malkovich]] in the lead role.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Klimt (2006) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/ |website=IMDb}}</ref> In 2008 the [[Couturier]] [[John Galliano]] found inspiration for the [[Christian Dior]] Spring-Summer 2008 [[haute couture]] collection in Klimt's work.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} The 2013 collection of designer [[Alexander McQueen]] was partially inspired by Klimt.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 22, 2012 |title=Alexander McQueen Resort 2013 |url=https://wwd.com/runway/resort-2013/paris/alexander-mcqueen/review/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Women's Wear Daily}}</ref>

Gustav Klimt and his work have been the subjects of many collector coins and medals, such as the 100 Euro [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Austria)#2003 coinage|Painting Gold Coin]], issued on 5 November 2003, by the [[Austrian Mint]]. The obverse depicts Klimt in his studio with two unfinished paintings on easels.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://artstoryinamedium.blogspot.com/2009/01/klimt-vs-hayez-kiss.html |title=Klimt vs Hayez "The Kiss" |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Friedrich Walker, plaque autochrome-Lumière, Gustav Klimt vers 1910.jpg|thumb|An early colour photo taken of Klimt using [[Autochrome Lumière|Autochrome]] technology, 1910s ]]
[[Tawny Chatmon]], an American photographic artist known for her portraits of Black children overlaid with gold leaf and paint, has sought to place Black figures in glittering gold clothing inspired by Klimt's lavish portraits of white Viennese women.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/137815/gods-gift-tawny-chatmon |title=God's Gift, Tawny Chatmon ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art |website=collections.artsmia.org}}</ref>

Elements of the portrait of ''[[First Lady Michelle Obama (painting)|First Lady Michelle Obama]]'', by [[Amy Sherald]] in 2018, have been noted by art critics to have been influenced by Klimt, in particular the ''[[Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=12 February 2018 |title=Portrait of Obama: 'This will not tell the future ages what made him special' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/12/kehinde-wiley-portrait-barack-obama-amy-sherald-michelle |access-date=15 February 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> One commentator noted the similarity to fashion designed by Klimt's muse [[Emilie Louise Flöge]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Modern Power Portraits With Some Fashion Notes |url=https://www.irenebrination.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2018/02/obamas-portraits.html |access-date=15 February 2023 |website=Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion, Fashion Law & Technology}}</ref>

===Commemoration of the 150th anniversary of birth===

The city of [[Vienna]], Austria had many special exhibitions commemorating the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth in 2012.<ref>Adams, Alexander. "Sheer sensuality: Alexander Adams reports on an exhibition devoted to the drawings of Gustav Klimt—one of a number of shows taking place this year to mark the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth." ''Apollo'', vol. 176, no. 600, July–Aug. 2012, p. 98+.</ref>

[[Google]] commemorated Gustav Klimt with a [[Google doodle]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/logos/2012/klimt12-hp.jpg |title=The Kiss doodle |access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref> celebrating Klimt's painting ''[[The Kiss (Klimt)|The Kiss]]'' on his 150th birthday, 14 July 2012.<ref name="gustav-klimts-150th-birthday">{{cite web |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/gustav-klimts-150th-birthday/ |title=Gustav Klimt's 150th Birthday |date=14 July 2012 |access-date=5 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-on-his-150th-birthday/271182-11.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715212454/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-gustav-klimts-the-kiss-on-his-150th-birthday/271182-11.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 July 2012 |title=Google doodles Gustav Klimt's ''The Kiss'' on his 150th birthday |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |access-date=14 July 2012}}</ref>

In 2012, the Austrian Mint began a five-coin gold series to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth. The first 50 Euro gold coin was issued on 25 January 2012 and featured a portrait of Klimt on the obverse and a portion of his painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer.<ref>Coin Update News [http://news.coinupdate.com/new-austrian-gold-coin-series-klimt-and-his-women-1167/ New Austrian Gold Coin Series "Klimt and His Women"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920101912/http://news.coinupdate.com/new-austrian-gold-coin-series-klimt-and-his-women-1167/ |date=20 September 2012 }} 13 January 2012.</ref>

===Gustav Klimt Foundation===
In 2013, the Gustav Klimt Foundation was set up by Ursula Ucicky, widow of Klimt's illegitimate son [[Gustav Ucicky]], with a mission to "preserve and disseminate Gustav Klimt's legacy." The managing director of the [[Leopold Museum]], Peter Weinhäupl, was appointed as chairman of the foundation. As a reaction, the museum's director [[Tobias G. Natter]] resigned in protest, citing Ucicky's past as a [[Nazi propaganda]] filmmaker.<ref>Julia Michalska (30 October 2013), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Viennas-Leopold-Museum-director-resigns-in-protest/30812 Vienna's Leopold Museum director resigns in protest] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101150011/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Viennas-Leopold-Museum-director-resigns-in-protest/30812 |date=1 November 2013 }} ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref>

===Nazi-looted art: restitution and litigation===
In 2000, a government committee recommended that Klimt's ''Lady with Hat and Feather Boa'', in [[Belvedere, Vienna|Belvedere]] Museum in Vienna, be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had owned it before the Nazi Anschluss.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 November 2000 |title=Klimt paintings to return to owner |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1046974.stm |access-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010208130204/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1046000/1046974.stm |archive-date=8 February 2001 |quote=Two paintings by Gustav Klimt, sold during the Nazi era, should be returned to their rightful heir, an Austrian government committee has recommended. The committee was set up to investigate works of art seized from Austrian Jews by the Nazis. The artworks to be returned include Lady with Hat and Feather Boa, a showpiece of the Austrian State Belvedere Museum in Vienna}}</ref>

[[National Public Radio]] reported on 17 January 2006 that "The [[Austrian National Gallery]] is being compelled by a national arbitration board to return five paintings by Gustav Klimt to a [[Los Angeles]]-based woman, the heir of a Jewish family that had its art stolen by the [[Nazism|Nazis]]. The paintings are estimated to be worth at least $150&nbsp;million."<ref>Burbank, Luke [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5160093 Austria to return paintings to Jewish heir], [[National Public Radio]], 17 January 2006.</ref> This incident, involving [[Maria Altmann]], was subsequently made into the Hollywood movie ''[[Woman in Gold (film)|Woman in Gold]]'', starring [[Helen Mirren]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Gustav Klimt: art's greatest womaniser? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/woman-in-gold/gustav-klimt-art-affairs/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/woman-in-gold/gustav-klimt-art-affairs/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=11 December 2019 |date=2 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Later that year, the most notable of the five paintings, 1907's ''[[Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I]]'' (also known as “The Woman in Gold”), was sold at auction for $135 million (at the time, the highest price ever paid for a single painting). The winning bidder was art collector [[Ronald Lauder|Ronald S. Lauder]], founder of [[Neue Galerie New York|Neue Galerie]] in New York, where it remains on display.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=2006-06-19 |title=Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/design/19klim.html |access-date=2024-07-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=York |first=Neue Galerie New |title=Neue Galerie New York |url=https://www.neuegalerie.org/womaningold |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=www.neuegalerie.org |language=en}}</ref>

In 2009 the [[Lentos Art Museum]] in [[Linz|Linz, Austria]] restituted Klimt's Portrait of Ria Munk III (Frauenbildnis) to the heirs of [[Aranka Munk]], a Jewish art collector in Vienna who was murdered in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. The looted portrait was of her daughter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk III) |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5334971 |website=christies |quote=Provenance. Aranka Munk, Vienna and Bads Aussee, by whom acquired from the artist. Wolfgang Gurlitt, Berlin (see note). Neue Galerie der Stadt (later, Lentos Kunstmuseum), Linz (inv. no. 149), by whom acquired from the above by 1956. Restituted to the heirs of Aranka Munk in June 2009.}}</ref>

In 2021 the [[Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France)|French minister]] of culture announced that the only Klimt in France's national collections was Nazi loot which should be restituted to the heirs of the Jewish family that had been persecuted by Nazis.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Paris |first=Associated Press in |date=16 March 2021 |title=France to return Klimt painting looted by the Nazis in 1938 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/mar/16/france-to-return-klimt-painting-looted-by-the-nazis-in-1938 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> ''Rosebushes Under the Trees'', painted in 1905, had been owned by Nora Stiasi, who had been forced to sell it before being murdered by the Nazis.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Breeden |first=Aurelien |date=15 March 2021 |title=France to Return Klimt Painting to Rightful Heirs After Nazi-Era Sale |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/arts/design/france-klimt-painting-restitution.html |url-status=live |access-date=18 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316021259/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/arts/design/france-klimt-painting-restitution.html |archive-date=16 March 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |quote=Stiasny was born in 1898 to a Jewish family in Vienna. The painting was passed on to her from her uncle, Viktor Zuckerkandl, a wealthy steel magnate and art collector who had bought "Rosebushes Under the Trees" in 1911. But after the Nazis annexed Austria, she was forced to sell it in 1938 "for next to nothing" to survive, Bachelot said. Stiasny was deported to Poland in 1942 and died that year, as did her husband and son.}}</ref> It is currently hanging in France's Orsay Museum which purchased it from Swiss art dealer Peter Nathan in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |title=France to return Klimt painting, which hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, to heirs of Viennese Jewish owner |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/france-to-return-klimt-painting-to-heirs-of-viennese-jewish-owner |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.theartnewspaper.com |date=15 March 2021}}</ref>

A similar painting, also painted by Klimt and known as ''Apple Trees II'', which was also Nazi loot, was mistakenly returned to the wrong family by the Austrian authorities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austria returns wrong Klimt to wrong family |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/austria-returns-wrong-klimt-to-wrong-family |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119065222/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/austria-returns-wrong-klimt-to-wrong-family |archive-date=19 November 2018 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.theartnewspaper.com |date=13 November 2018}}</ref>

Other Klimts that have been the object of ownership battles owing to a history of Nazi looting include the ''Beethoven Frieze'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The turbulent history of Klimt's Nazi-seized works |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=SVIKS9803291 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The tortuous story of Gustav Klimt's Nazi-looted, 100-foot-wide Beethoven Frieze uncovered |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=T71RYR229051 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref> ''Water Snakes II'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Answers Coming to Light for Hidden-Away Klimt Paintings |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=QAJLCU258061 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>  ''Blooming Meadow''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cosmetics magnate sued over 'looted' Klimt painting |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=MP3BTO774091 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref> and ''Portrait of Gertrude Lowe''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Klimt's 'Portrait of Gertrud Loew' to Be Auctioned |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=RAB30A698971 |access-date=18 March 2021 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>

In 2023, Ronald S. Lauder agreed to restitute and repurchase Klimt's “The Black Feather Hat,” which had  belonged to Irene Beran, before she fled the Nazis. The painting's provenance was unclear after it left Beran's collection, resurfacing in Stuttgart in connection to the Nazi [[Friedrich Welz]]. Beran's mother and former husband Philip were murdered by the Nazis after being deported to the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ronald S. Lauder Reaches Agreement on Klimt Painting With Jewish Heirs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/arts/design/ronald-lauder-klimt-painting-restitution.htm |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=News Desk |date=2023-02-10 |title=RONALD S. LAUDER, JEWISH HEIRS REACH AGREEMENT ON KLIMT PAINTING |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/ronald-s-lauder-jewish-heirs-reach-agreement-on-klimt-painting-252500/ |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>