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    Maria Altmann

    Filed successful lawsuit against government of Austria for return of family artwork plundered by the Nazis

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  1. 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.

  2. Sep 30, 2020 · Maria Altmann was a Jewish refugee who fought to reclaim the famous Klimt paintings of her aunt Adele from the Austrian government. Learn about her childhood, her escape from the Nazis, her life in America and her legal battle in this biography.

  3. May 7, 2015 · Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman living in Los Angeles, enlists the help of a young lawyer (Ryan Reynolds) to fight the Austrian government for a painting that the Nazis had stolen from her family some sixty years earlier.

  4. Apr 2, 2015 · A new movie tells the true story of Maria Altmann, who fought her way to the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Austrian government to return a painting of her aunt.

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  5. 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...

  6. 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...

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  8. Apr 10, 2015 · A film about Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who fought to recover a famous painting by Gustav Klimt from the Austrian government. The film stars Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Brühl, and is based on a true story of art, justice and history.

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