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 of art restitution. With the death ...

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. Soon afterwards, she sold the most famous of them, the portrait ...

In Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, a Holocaust survivor fighting to get her aunt's portrait back after it was stolen by the Nazis and hung in an Austrian museum. The film was based on ...

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 Klimt ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died ...

Maria Bloch-Bauer Altmann never wanted a fight. In fact, she never wanted Gustav Klimt’s celebrated portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, to leave Austria, the country Altmann had escaped during ...

Berton Altmann, a longtime Los Gatos resident, died on March 19. He was 91. He was born on Nov. 14, 1920, in Newton, Mass., and grew up in Kent, Ohio, graduating from Kent State University. He later ...

“SUFFERING” was the first word that came to Maria Altmann when she was asked about Aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer. Frail, dark, beautiful, always with a headache. Children annoyed her, because she had none of ...

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 years, Altmann ...

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