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"Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece -- the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision...
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Prestel Verlag
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
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Gustav Klimt ist heute vor allem als Schöpfer von ästhetischen Gemälden mit opulenter Goldverzierung bekannt. Was viele nicht wissen: Zu seinen Lebzeiten brachte der Großmeister des österreichischen Jugendstils bei mehr als nur einer Gelegenheit die Wächter von Anstand und Moral gegen sich auf. Viel zu freizügig, ja geradezu pornografisch war in deren Augen seine Darstellung des weiblichen Körpers, den er unter anderem mit einer Vielzahl von...
Pub. Date
2015
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Widescreen.
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English
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Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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