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 ...

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 Jewish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...