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.

Maria Altmann may have been determined, but she could not have succeeded in her battle alone. Her legal spear-carrier was a 32-year-old legal nobody named E. Randol Schoenberg, ...

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.

Maria Altmann spent the past 60 years of her life in Los Angeles. The Viennese native had fled the Nazis, and her wealthy family's possessions were looted. But in 2004, Altmann won a landmark U.S ...

Maria Altmann, pursuer of looted paintings, died on February 7th, aged 94. Feb 17th 2011 | Share “SUFFERING” was the first word that came to Maria Altmann when she was asked about Aunt Adele ...

Altmann, who was born Maria Viktoria Bloch-Bauer in Vienna, came from a wealthy Jewish family that was stripped of its businesses, home and other wealth after Germany annexed Austria in 1938.

Maria Altmann, the Austrian-born woman who has been awarded five Gustav Klimt paintings seized by Nazis, also has been granted a stake in a historic building in downtown Vienna.

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 ...

As a youngster growing up amid opulence in Vienna between the world wars, Maria Bloch-Bauer Altmann took for granted the masterpieces by Gustav Klimt that were a part of her life.The two Klimt oil ...

"Woman in Gold" really tells two stories. The first takes place in the recent past, and covers Maria's pursuit of restitution from her home in Los Angeles, using the services of a young, untested ...

Maria Altmann, who died on February 7 aged 94, waged a determined and ultimately successful battle to force Austria to hand over five paintings by Gustav Klimt which had been seized from her ...