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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 Third Reich.
Sep 30, 2020 · Famous Painters. Maria Altmann: The Real Story Behind 'Woman in Gold' Learn about the Jewish refugee whose painting of her aunt was stolen by Nazis and inspired the 2015 movie starring Helen...
Mar 31, 2015 · For one, there is the mesmerizing gold-flecked painting itself, which set a record price of $135 million when it was sold in 2006. Then there is the David-and-Goliath tale featuring a feisty...
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.
- 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.
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...
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.
