Maria Altmann
✓ Source-basedfallingFiled successful lawsuit against government of Austria for return of family artwork plundered by the Nazis (1916-2011)
United StatesLived 1916 to 2011 · aged 94Fame52.7
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Maria Altmann was an Austrian-American, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Nazi’s Third Reich. She is noted for her successful legal campaign to reclaim, from the Government of Austria, five family-owned paintings by the artist Gustav Klimt, stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
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Maria and Fritz on their wedding day in 1937, three months before the Anschluss
Poster in Vienna in 2006, bidding goodbye to the painting Adele Bloch-Bauer
Maria and lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg in 2004 after Supreme Court victory
Altmann at her home in Cheviot Hills in 2010
Backstage with Plácido Domingo at a production of Die Walküre at the Los Angeles Music Center in 2009; Domingo's son in backgroundIn their orbit 2
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Lived 1916 to 2011 · aged 94
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