Maria Altmann
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Maria Altmann was an Austrian-American, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Nazi’s Third Reich. She is noted for her successful legal campaign to reclaim, from the Government of Aust
Altmann in 1935
Maria and Fritz on their wedding day in 1937, three months before the Anschluss
Poster in Vienna in 2006, bidding goodbye to the painting Adele Bloch-Bauer
Maria and lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg in 2004 after Supreme Court victory
E. Randol Schoenberg
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Eric Randol Schoenberg is an American lawyer and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by
Maria Altmann
…the Austrian court system. In 2000, Altmann filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California with her lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The case, Republic of Austria v. Altmann, ended up in the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled…
E. Randol Schoenberg head shot