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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 · Learn about the Jewish refugee who fought to reclaim the famous Klimt painting of her aunt from the Austrian government. From a wealthy Vienna family to a concentration camp survivor, from a jewelry designer to a painter, Altmann's life and quest to recover Woman in Gold is a riveting story of survival and resistance.

  3. 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.

    • Nina Totenberg
  4. 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...

    • Michael Mcnay
  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 died. She was...

  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. 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,...

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