Serena Lederer

Born in Budapest into a wealthy Jewish family (grandniece of the U.S. journalist Joseph Pulitzer), Serena was known for being a beauty in her youth and later a Grande Dame.

As early as 1888, Gustav Klimt made a first miniature portrait of the young and then unmarried Serena Lederer for his work "Audience Room in the Old Burgtheater".

[5] According to son Erich Lederer (1896–1985), the residence had been furnished by the Wiener Werkstätte founded by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser in Vienna in 1903.

Works that were recovered, however, could not be moved out of Austria, which forbade the Lederer family from exporting Klimt's masterpiece "Beethoven Frieze" to Switzerland.

[9] Also in 2018, it was discovered that Austrian authorities had restituted one of the Lederer's Klimts, Apple Tree II, to the wrong family.