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Altmann, Maria, 1916-2011

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Personal name headingAltmann, Maria, 1916-2011
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Variant(s)Bloch-Bauer, Maria, 1916-2011
Bauer, Maria Bloch-, 1916-2011
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1916-02-18
Death date2011-02-07
Place of birthVienna (Austria)
Place of deathBeverly Hills (Calif.)
Profession or occupationArt collectors
Found inWoman in gold, 2015: credits (based on the life stories of E. Randol Schoenberg and Maria Altmann) titles (Maria Altmann died in 2011) container (film is about Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish woman who, sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, began a court battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis--including Gustav Klimt's painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I)
DNB in VIAF, October 16, 2015 (Altmann, Maria, 1916-2011; alternate access point based on her birth name: Bloch-Bauer, Maria, 1916-2011; born February 18, 1916, Vienna; died February 7, 2011, Beverly Hills, California; American art collector who successfully fought for the return of Klimt paintings that were confiscated during the Nazi regime; niece and heir of art collector Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer)