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 ...

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 Altmann, whose seven-year battle to recover her family’s Nazi-looted paintings riveted the art and legal worlds, died Monday (Feb. 7) at 94 after a prolonged illness in her Los Angeles home.

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... After Nazi Plunder, A Quest To Bring Home The 'Woman In ...

“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 ...

Maria Altmann, the Los Angeles woman who successfully reclaimed five Gustav Klimt paintings that Nazis had looted from her family in Austria, died Monday. When Maria Altmann was a girl in Vienna, her ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it will exhibit five important paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, works that were stolen by the Nazi regime during World War II.

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 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.

Gustav Klimt'sThe Kiss is one of the most famous paintings in history — yet it's the artist's privately commissioned portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer that has become the artist's most infamous ...