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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
- 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...
Under the Nazis, Fredrick was arrested in Austria and held hostage at the Dachau concentration camp to force his brother Bernhard Altmann, by then safely in England, to transfer his successful Bernhard Altmann textile factory into German hands. Fredrick was released and the couple fled.
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- Viktor Gutmann (brother in law)
- February 7, 2011 (aged 94), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Apr 4, 1994 · Friedrich “Fritz” Altmann. Birth. 25 Sep 1908. Vienna, Austria. Death. 4 Apr 1994 (aged 85) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial. Hillside Memorial Park.
What follows is Bernhard Altmann‘s description of the circumstances surrounding the escape of his younger brother Fritz Altmann (1908-1994) and his wife Maria (1916-2011) from Nazi Germany, an event portrayed by Max Irons and Tatyana Maslany in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.
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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.
