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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue
Part One Emancipation
Adele’s Vienna: Poems and Privilege
The King
Emancipated Immigrants
The Wounded Creator
Arranged Marriage
The Secession
Klimt the Seducer
An Innocent Abroad
“I Want to Get Out”
Adele’s “Bohemian Home”
The Empress
“Degenerate Women”
Eyes Wide Shut
The Outsider
The Painted Mosaic
Klimt’s Women
“Hugs from Your Buddha”
The Good Spirit
Part Two Love and Betrayal
Degenerate Art
“You Are Peace”
Unrequited Love
Marie Viktoria
Maria and Luise
Stubenbastei
The Housepainter from Austria
With or Without You
The Return of the Native
Love Letters from a Bride
Work Makes Freedom
Thunder at Twilight
Decent Honorable People
Gay Marriage
The Orient Express
The Autograph Hunter
Stealing Beauty
The Last of the Bloch-Bauers
Homecoming
Führer
Nazis in the Family
“Above the Mob”
The Viennese Cassandra
Ferdinand in Exile
The Gutmanns
The “Blonde Beast”
Love Letters from a Murderer
Ferdinand’s Legacy
The Uses of Art
Nelly
The Immendorf Castle
The Child in the Chapel
The Castle of the First Reichsmarschall
The Partisans
The Man Without Qualities
The Nero Decree
Restitution
Liberation
Refugee
Provenance
Part Three Atonement
Historical Amnesia
The Children of Tantalus
The Heirs of History
The Library of Theft
The Search for Provenance
“I Can’t Afford for You to Lose”
How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?
Klimt’s Stolen Women
A Lost Cause Célèbre
Diplomacy
Family History
Supreme Judgment
Arbitration
Ciao Adele
A Friend from Old Vienna
Patrimony
Adele’s Final Destiny
The Burden of History
Art History
Cultural Property
A Reckoning
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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