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Sep 30, 2020 · 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 Mirren. By...
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.
May 7, 2015 · In researching the Woman in Gold true story, we discovered that Gustav Klimt's 1907 painting was originally titled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," named for the woman who posed for it, Maria Altmann's Aunt Adele. It was the first of two portraits that Klimt painted of Adele.
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.
- Nina Totenberg
Mar 31, 2015 · Then there is the David-and-Goliath tale featuring a feisty octogenarian heroine — Ms. Bloch-Bauer’s niece Maria Altmann — taking on a recalcitrant Austrian government.
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.
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...
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