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Why are Adel Bloch’s Bauers women in gold cultural heritage at risk?​

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Adele Bloch-Bauer is known as "woman in gold" for Gustav Klimt's portrait painting of her that had become a cultural heritage. During World War II, the painting was looted by the Nazis along with four other Klimt's paintings from the Bloch-Bauer residence. After the war, the portrait painting was returned to Austria and displayed in a federal museum, while Adele Bloch-Bauer's heirs spent nearly a decade seeking its return. Eventually, in 2006, the painting was returned to the rightful heirs, and it was later sold for a record-breaking price. Therefore, it was not Adel Bloch's Bauers Women in Gold that were at risk but the painting itself, as it was taken during the cultural looting spree by the Nazis.

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