“Girl in Gold” is the English title of the 2015 movie depicting the true story of Maria Altmann, an aged Jewish refugee who fought the Austrian authorities for years to reclaim possession of Gustav Klimt’s well-known portray of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I. The portray was stolen by the Nazis throughout World Warfare II, and Altmann spent many years attempting to get it again. She was lastly profitable in 2006, when the Austrian authorities agreed to return the portray to her.
The case of “Girl in Gold” is important as a result of it highlights the significance of restitution for Holocaust survivors and their households. It additionally sheds gentle on the difficulty of Nazi-looted artwork, and the continued efforts to return stolen artworks to their rightful homeowners.
