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A WWII true story drama that deserves to be told on the screen. Helen Mirren gives yet another astounding performance and I was pleasantly surprised by Ryan Reynolds. What would attract audiences to WOMAN IN GOLD is its David Vs. Goliath story, everybody loves a story about an underdog taking on the impossible and that's what WOMAN IN GOLD essentially is. Cohen, Patricia (30 March 2015). "The Story Behind 'Woman in Gold': Nazi Art Thieves and One Painting's Return". The New York Times . Retrieved 6 December 2015. Altmann enlists the help of E. Randol Schoenberg (the son of her close friend, Barbara), a lawyer with little experience, to make a claim to the art restitution board in Austria. Reluctantly returning to her homeland, Altmann discovers that the country's minister and art director are unwilling to part with the painting, which they feel has become part of the national identity. Altmann is told that the painting was legitimately bequeathed to the gallery by her aunt. Upon further investigation by her lawyer and Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin, this claim proves to be wrong as the alleged will is invalid due to the fact that her aunt did not own the painting, the artist's fee having been paid by Altmann's uncle. Adele Bloch-Bauer wanted the painting to go to the museum at her husband's death but it was taken from him by the Nazis and placed in the museum by a Nazi-collaborating curator, well before his death. Schoenberg files a challenge with the art restitution board, but it is denied and Altmann does not have the money needed to challenge the ruling. Defeated, she and Schoenberg return to the United States. Gustav Bloch-Bauer had been loaned the famous "Gore Booth Baron Rothschild" Stradivarius cello (see List of Stradivarius instruments) by the Rothschild family, [21] which was looted by the Nazis in 1938 and retained by the German authorities until 1956. [22] The case passed through the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. [59]

Grunenberg, Christoph; Natter, Tobias Günter; Asenbaum, Paul (2008). Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life. Liverpool: Tate. ISBN 978-1-85437-735-7. Although Altmann was not old enough at the time to remember Klimt's visits, she grew up visiting her uncle and aunt's grand house, which was filled with pictures, tapestries, elegant furniture and a collection of fine porcelain. Adele would often hold court for musicians, artists and writers in the salon of her huge house on Elisabethstrasse near the Wiener Staatsoper (the Vienna State Opera house). Bloch-Bauer, Adele (1923). "Testament vom 19.1.1923 von Adele Bloch-Bauer" (PDF). University of Geneva . Retrieved 17 April 2017.Nelson, Robert S. (2015). "Modernism's Byzantium Byzantium's Modernism". In Betancourt, Roland; Taroutina, Maria (eds.). Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-30001-9. On 19 January 1923 Adele Bloch-Bauer wrote a will. Ferdinand's brother Gustav, a lawyer by training, helped her frame the document and was named as the executor. [50] [51] The will included a reference to the Klimt works owned by the couple, including the two portraits of her: Guests at the salon included the composers Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Alma Mahler, the politicians Karl Renner and Julius Tandler and the writers Jakob Wassermann and Stefan Zweig. [28] Haithman, Diane; Reynolds, Christopher (17 January 2006). "Court Awards Nazi-Looted Artworks to L.A. Woman". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 27 April 2017.

The Woman in Gold: Historical Timeline" (PDF). Neue Galerie. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2017.This marks the second time both Mirren and Holmes have starred in film together, the previous being the Kevin Williamson film Teaching Mrs. Tingle, in 1999.

Lee Strauss is a bestselling writer from America, who is famous for writing historical fiction, mystery, science fiction, and suspense novels. She has written several highly successful book series in her writing career. Some of the most popular ones include A Nursery Rhyme series, The Perception series, Ginger Gold Mystery series, etc. In addition to the books of these widely popular mystery series, author Strauss has written romantic suspense, dystopian, historical fiction, and young adult books as well. Author Strauss hails from Aurora, Illinois, United States. She says she has received a lot of inspiration by reading the works of prominent authors like Agatha Christie, Rhys Bowen, etc. This has influenced her to come up with her own exciting stories in many ways. Author Strauss uses the name of Elle Strauss for writing young adult and fantasy novels. During her spare times, she likes to get involved interesting sports activities like kayaking, cycling, and hiking. Also, she loves to travel very much, although she hates the jet lags she gets by her frequent travels. Adele's parents arranged a marriage with Ferdinand Bloch, a banker and sugar manufacturer; Adele's older sister had previously married Ferdinand's older brother. [24] [25] Ferdinand was older than his fiancée and at the time of the marriage in December 1899, she was 18 and he was 35. The couple, who had no children, both changed their surnames to Bloch-Bauer. [26] Socially well-connected, Adele brought together writers, politicians and intellectuals for regular salons at their home. [27] [n 2] Schwartz, Agata (2010). Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press. ISBN 978-0-7766-0726-9.The titular character in Woman in Gold is Adele Bloch-Bauer, whose husband, Czech sugar mogul Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, commissioned Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt to paint two portraits of his wife when she was 25 years old. The first and most famous of the two later became known as Woman in Gold. The 2015 film focuses on Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann, played by Helen Mirren, and her quest to reclaim the famous Klimt painting from the Austrian government, but there is a lot more to her story. Altmann led a charmed childhood Thompson, Jan (1971). "The Role of Woman in the Iconography of Art Nouveau". Art Journal. 31 (2): 158–167. doi: 10.1080/00043249.1972.10792994. JSTOR 775570. Frodl, Gerbert (1992). Klimt. Translated by Campbell, Alexandra. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-7126-5168-4. Film critics in Austria and Germany noted various deviations of the film from historical reality. Olga Kronsteiner from the Austrian daily Der Standard wrote that it was not Maria Altmann's lawyer, Randol Schönberg, who researched and initiated the restitution case, but Austrian journalist Hubertus Czernin, who had worked on a number of restitution files at the time, who found the decisive documents and subsequently informed Maria Altmann. [16]

In August 1945 Ferdinand wrote a final will that revoked all previous ones. It made no reference to the pictures, which he thought had been lost forever, but it stated that his entire estate was left to his nephew and two nieces—one of whom was Maria Altmann. [60] [65] Ferdinand died in Switzerland in November that year. [59]The history of the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I and the other paintings taken from the Bloch-Bauers has been recounted in three documentary films, Stealing Klimt (2007), The Rape of Europa (2007) and Adele's Wish (2008). [91] The painting's history is described in the 2012 book The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, by the journalist Anne-Marie O'Connor. [92] The history, as well as other stories of other stolen art, is told by Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow in Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice, published in 2010. [93] The story of Adele Bloch-Bauer and Maria Altmann formed the basis for the 2017 novel Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese. [94] The portrait is featured in the memoir of Gregor Collins, The Accidental Caregiver, about his relationship with Maria Altmann, published in August 2012. [95] The book was dramatised for the stage in January 2015. [96] In 2015 Altmann's story was dramatised for the film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren as Maria and Ryan Reynolds as Schoenberg. [97]