Remembering Maria Altmann, Holocaust Hero Who Won Back Klimt Paintings
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.
After a lengthy legal dispute with the Austrian government, in 2006 Maria Altmann (inset) won rights to "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," a 1907 painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. (Credit: Chris Pizzello / Reuters)
