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  1. Sep 30, 2020 · Altmann led a charmed childhood. 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 ...

  2. Maria Altmann. 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.

  3. May 7, 2015 · WATCH. The Lady in Gold Documentary. The real Randol Schoenberg posted this Woman in Gold documentary that explores the history and recovery of the Bloch-Bauer Klimt paintings by Maria Altmann in 2006. Her legal battle, led by Schoenberg, became the basis for the 2015 movie. WATCH.

  4. Maria Altmann was born Maria Victoria Bloch on February 18, 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary in the wealthy Jewish family of Gustav Bloch and Marie Therese. In 1917, the family changed their name to Bloch-Bauer. Her uncle, Czech sugar magnate, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, and his wife, Adele, were closely associated with the circle of artists of ...

  5. Apr 2, 2015 · The movie, starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, begins with the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938. Newlyweds Maria Altmann and her husband are wealthy Jews fleeing for their lives, leaving her ...

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  6. 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.

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  8. Apr 2, 2015 · Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, who in 2006 successfully reclaimed five family-owned paintings by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that had been looted by Nazis. One of them, Portrait of Adele ...