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Apr 2, 2015 · Adele's diamond necklace, passed on to Maria Altmann upon her marriage, reportedly ended up decorating the neck of Goering's wife. The Klimt paintings were seized, too, only to reappear after the ...
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May 7, 2015 · WATCH. The Lady in Gold Documentary. The real Randol Schoenberg posted this Woman in Gold documentary that explores the history and recovery of the Bloch-Bauer Klimt paintings by Maria Altmann in 2006. Her legal battle, led by Schoenberg, became the basis for the 2015 movie. WATCH.
- Altmann Led A Charmed Childhood
- She Was Robbed When The Nazis Took Over Austria
- The Altmanns Fled to America
- She Battled The Austrian Government to Get The Paintings Back
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Maria Viktoria Bloch-Bauer was born to Gustav Bloch-Bauer and Therese Bauer on February 18, 1916, in Vienna, Austria. Her wealthy Jewish family, including her uncle Ferdinand and aunt Adele, were close to the artists of the Vienna Secession movement, which Klimt helped establish in 1897. The avant-garde of the Austrian capital included the composer...
Altmann was left with only memories of the paintings, as they were stolen when the Nazis took over Austria in 1938. She had just married opera singer Fritz Altmann and her uncle had given her Adele's diamond earrings and a necklace as a wedding present. But the Nazis stole them from her — the stunning necklace she wore on her wedding day was sent t...
The Nazis held Fredrick at Dachau concentration camp to persuade his brother, Bernhard, to sign over his lucrative textile factory to them. Bernhard had already escaped to London by this time, but when he heard the news about his brother, he gave the Nazis his business, and in turn, Frederick was set free. The couple then lived under house arrest u...
For many years, Altmann had assumed that the Austrian National Gallery had taken possession of the Klimt paintings. But when she was 82, she learned from the tenacious Austrian investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin that the title to the paintings was hers, and she vowed to get them back. In 1999 she and her lawyer tried to sue the Austrian gove...
Maria Altmann was the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of the famous Klimt painting Woman in Gold. She fought to reclaim the painting and other Klimt works from the Austrian government, which had seized them from her family during the Nazi era.
Relatives. Viktor Gutmann (brother in law) Maria Altmann (née Maria Victoria Bloch, later Bloch-Bauer; February 18, 1916 – February 7, 2011) was an Austrian-American Jewish refugee from Austria, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Third Reich. She is noted for her ultimately successful legal campaign to reclaim from the ...
Mar 31, 2015 · As the new film “Woman in Gold,” starring Helen Mirren as the indefatigable Maria Altmann, acknowledges in a brief written prologue before the credits roll, more than 100,000 stolen works of ...
Feb 8, 2011 · Maria Altmann, who escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna as a newlywed and returned to wage a triumphant fight to recover Gustav Klimt’s iconic gold portrait of her remarkable aunt, has died. She was 94.
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Dec 7, 2018 · A diamond ring, gifted by Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, husband to Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of Klimt's 'Woman in Gold', to their great niece, will be sold in 2018. The ring has a connection to the famous painting, which was inherited by Maria Altmann and sold to the Neue Galerie New York.
