I just finished watching "Woman in Gold" on DirecTV Cinema. If you have nothing going on this evening, check it out.
The movie chronicles the life of Maria Altmann, played by Helen Mirren, a real-life Jewish refugee whose family's art was stolen by Nazis in World War II.
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 film focuses on Bloch-Bauer's niece, Maria Altmann,and her quest to reclaim the famous Klimt painting from the Austrian government, but there is a lot more to her story.
Maria Viktoria Bloch-Bauer was born to Gustav Bloch-Bauer and Therese Bauer on February 18, 1916, in Vienna, Austria. Her wealthy Jewish family, including her uncle Ferdinand and aunt Adele, were close to the artists of the Vienna Secession movement, which Klimt helped establish in 1897. The avant-garde of the Austrian capital included the composer Arnold Schoenberg and the lawyer who handled Altmann's case was Randol Schoenberg, the composer's grandson, who is played by Ryan Reynolds in the film
You can read the rest of this amazing story below and check out the movie, it's amazing.
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