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Woman in Gold

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It’s one of the great legal battles in art history, writes Nina Totenberg. 

Maria Altmann fought her way to the Supreme Court to force the Austrian government to give back this painting of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting, and others by artist Gustav Klimt, were taken from the Bloch-Bauer home by the Nazis and ended up in Austria’s federal art museum after the war. Altmann’s story is featured in the new film, Woman in Gold, out this week. 

NPR’s Nina Totenberg, who interviewed Altmann before she died, has more here:

After Nazi Plunder, A Quest To Bring The ‘Woman In Gold’ Home

(Photos: Getty Images, The Weinstein Company)

April 2, 2015

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