Ferdinand bloch bauer biography of williams syndrome

He attended the Handelsakademie in Prague and joined the family business in He became director of the company in and developed it into one of the largest European company in its segment.

Ferdinand Bloch () was a major industrialist who developed his father's company into one of the largest in Central Europe; indeed.

He held consultant, managerial and supervisory functions in other companies. After the end of the Habsburg monarchy in he was successfully involved in Austrian and Czechoslovakian companies, banks and lobby groups. The marriage was childless. As prominent members of Viennese society they met with politicians and artists and collected paintings, sculptures and Classicist Viennese porcelain.

Gustav Klimt painted several portraits of Adele Bloch. The couple also shared an enthusiasm for hunting. Adele Bloch-Bauer died on 24 January at the age of just For the Klimt memorial exhibition in the Secession in , Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer loaned seven paintings, including two portraits of his wife from and In May and June the exhibition marking Oskar Kokoschka's fiftieth birthday was shown with a year's delay at the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry with the financial support of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer and the loan of a portrait of him painted in Bloch-Bauer fled first to Czechoslovakia and then to Switzerland.

After the establishment of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on 16 March , the Nazi regime expropriated Jungfernbreschan castle, which was used by Reich Protector Konstantin von Neurath and in and by the deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. Bloch-Bauer's assets in Austria were "disposed of". Prior to the auction, Ernst , now director of the State Arts and Crafts Museum in Vienna, acquired thirty-four porcelain items for his museum.

Bloch-Bauer did not live to see any of his possessions restituted, however, as he died on 13 November in Zurich. In at least one private collector returned porcelain items acquired at the auction to the heirs of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer against reimbursement of the purchase price.