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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 Nazi’s Third Reich.
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...
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...
May 7, 2015 · Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman living in Los Angeles, enlists the help of a young lawyer (Ryan Reynolds) to fight the Austrian government for a painting that the Nazis had stolen from her family some sixty years earlier.
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.
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...
Feb 8, 2011 · Maria Altmann famously won back prized Klimt paintings that were stolen from her Jewish family by the Nazis. After her death, Isabel Wilkinson remembers the pioneer...
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...
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...
Jun 23, 2015 · 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 Vienna...