Holoch-Bawerm To Woman In Gold Analysis

The year is 1938, officials are going thought all your family's precious artifacts, taking them without your consent just because you are Jewish. This was the reality for Maria Altman and her family in Austria, now under Nazi Germany's control. The Nazi officials take family heirlooms, that are worth thousands, a diamond necklace that once belonged to Maria's aunt, a pair of diamond earrings that also belong to Maria's aunt, and paintings. One of these paintings would start a long legal battle to recover, the painting was simply know as Lady in Gold. But in reality it was a portrait of Adele Bloch-Bawerm, Maria's aunt. In the year of 1907, the portrait of Adele was under way, the artist was up and coming Gustav Klint. The painting was hung in the place of honor in the house, that was until it was stolen in 1938 by the Nazi's. In 1941 the painting was placed on sale or disposal by the German state, this is where the Austrian state gallery got ahold of the painting, placing it in Belvedere Place in Vienna. Here the paint's name is changed, from Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bawerm to Woman in Gold. Why would they change the name you might ask, it's to hide the identity of Adele, a Jewish woman. After the end of the war, the painting was never returned to the family, keeping the name of the painting the same, and in the same museum. Over
This caused a furry of people to began lawsuits to reclaim what belong to them, one of these famous lawsuits is Maria Altman VS Austria's Government. For many years Maria believed that Adele's painting had been legally donated to them, only at the age of 82 did she discover the truth of how the painting landed in Belvedere Place. After this she filed a law suit to reclaim Adele's painting, and bring Adele home. Maria, who owned a clothing store, had no idea how to fight in the legal system, so she hired E Randol Schoenberg as her