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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. Feb 11, 2011 · Maria Altmann obituary. She wrested back from Austria five Klimt masterpieces looted by the Nazis. Michael McNay. Fri 11 Feb 2011 12.19 EST. In 2006 Maria Altmann, who has died aged 94, won...

  2. 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...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Feb 8, 2011 · With the death of Maria Altmann on Monday at age 94, the world has lost a trailblazer of Holocaust art restitution and one of the last links to painter Gustav Klimt’s Vienna. In recent years,...

  5. Feb 9, 2011 · When 94-year-old Maria Altmann died on Monday, she left not only grieving relatives and friends, she also left a legal legacy, one that may in the future help families right a decades-long...

  6. Jun 23, 2015 · Susan Stamberg/NPR. In Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann — an octogenarian Jewish refugee who fought to recover the Gustav Klimt paintings the Nazis seized from her family in...

  7. 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 by Gustav...

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