Maria Altmann spent the past 60 years of her life in Los Angeles. ... And I said, Maria, if you want the case decided in your lifetime, we have to take this chance and do it.

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 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 … ...

He took up Maria Altmann’s case when she called in early 1998. Altmann wanted to talk to his mother about a proposed law in Austria that would allow restitution to Nazi art theft victims.

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 ...

Maria Altmann, Who Won Battle For Return Of Nazi-looted Klimt Paintings, Dies In Los Angeles. ... said Altmann's case was one of many about the unfinished business of the Holocaust.

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, a Viennese Jew hounded out of Austria following its annexation by Germany in 1938, was a fighter. Determined to settle an historic injustice, she sued the Austrian government to ...

Maria Altmann was 88 when I first met her by phone in 2004. "Would it be possible to call back in a few minutes?" she asked. "I'm feeling a little dizzy and would like a cup of coffee to revive ...

The US Supreme Court has granted Austria’s request to appeal a decision, taken by a lower federal appeals court in Los Angeles earlier this year, that Austria can be sued in California in a ...

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 d… ...