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She was a niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Jewish patron of the arts who served as the model for some of Klimt's best-known paintings and who hosted a Viennese salon that regularly attracted the most prominent artists of the day, including Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arthur Schnitzler, Johannes Brahms, Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler, Leo Sle...
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- Viktor Gutmann (brother in law)
- February 7, 2011 (aged 94), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Chronology. Nazi looted art. – Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer owned the following paintings by Gustav Klimt: Buchenwald (1903), Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), Schloss Kammer am Attersee III (1910), Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912), Apfelbaum I (1912), Häuser in Unterach am Attersee (1916), Amalie Zuckerkandl (1917-1918).
- Dispute Resolution Process. Institutional facilitator – Conciliation – Judicial claim – Judicial decision – Arbitration – Arbitral award. – At first, Maria Altmann sought restitution of the Klimt paintings through the Restitution Committee established by the 1998 Restitution Act.
- Legal Issues. State immunity – Ownership. – Decision of the United States Supreme Court on the issue of immunity. The principle of State immunity entails that acts performed by a State in the exercise of its sovereign authority (jure imperii) attract immunity from the jurisdiction of foreign domestic courts and from enforcement proceedings.
- Adopted Solution. Unconditional restitution. – The arbitral held that the paintings Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, Buchenwald, Häuser in Unterach am Attersee and Apfelbaum I were to be handed over to Maria Altmann, and that the painting Amalie Zuckerkandl was the property of the Republic of Austria.
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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...
Sep 30, 2020 · The 2015 film focuses on Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann, played by Helen Mirren, and her quest to reclaim the famous Klimt painting from the Austrian government, but there is a lot more...
Feb 11, 2011 · Michael McNay. Fri 11 Feb 2011 12.19 EST. In 2006 Maria Altmann, who has died aged 94, won possession of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that had been seized by the Nazis in 1938.
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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...
Apr 4, 2015 · Lawrence K. Ho, Los Angeles Times. Maria Altmann, the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer with a reproduction of one of the two Klimt paintings that were stolen by the Nazis. By Howard Reich....