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Fritz Altmann: My Adventures and Escape from Nazi Germany. The following speech was prepared by Fritz Altmann (1908-1994) about his escape from Austria with his wife Maria Altmann née Bloch-Bauer (1916-2011). Fritz is portrayed by Max Irons in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.
Nov 2, 2023 · Fritz Altmann was a Jewish businessman and opera singer who escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria with his wife Maria Altmann in 1938. He died in 1994 at the age of 86, but his legacy lives on as his wife became a famous figure in the art world for her successful legal battle to reclaim five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen by the Nazis ...
Los Angeles, CA, United States. Genealogy for Fritz (Friedrich, Frederick) Altmann (1908 - 1994) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- September 25, 1908
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Vienna, Austria
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- 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
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 Bloch, in c. 1935, shortly before her marriage. [citation needed] In 1937, Maria married Fredrick "Fritz" Altmann. [citation needed] Not long after their Paris honeymoon, the 1938 Anschluss incorporated Austria into Nazi Germany. [citation needed]
Feb 9, 2011 · Feb. 9, 2011. Maria V. Altmann, a Jewish refugee who in her 80s waged a successful legal battle all the way to the United States Supreme Court to force the Austrian government to return paintings...
Dec 20, 1998 · After working for his brother-in-law in the knitwear factories, Fritz Altmann decided he wanted to do something for the war effort, so moved his family to California to take a job at Lockheed...
