Klimt: Adele's Last Will (2006)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A film on the recovery of the five Gustav Klimt paintings from the Bloch-Bauer collection by Maria Altmann and Randy Schoenberg. Dissidents Films: Laurence Uebersfeld, Producer. Gilbert Charles and Michel Vuillermet, Directors.
Maria Altmann is the real treasure. What strength and character!
I saw the "Woman in Gold" yesterday with my family and felt compelled to learn more about Maria Altmann, the recovery of her paintings, and her family's life. Thank you for posting this film and for all that you did to bring justice to her family, and by extension, all people who suffered during and after the Holocaust.
Mr. Schoenberg - how truly proud you must be, even ten years on, and for the rest of your life. Seeing these paintings in 2006 changed my life and made it ever richer. I am so happy to be able to thank you here - my Deepest Thanks, and Peace to you, Sir!
My husband and I saw the film Woman in Gold and, of course, wanted to know the true account of the events. I'm was glad she got what belonged to her; I think since the paintings were hers she could do whatever she wanted to do--keep them, sell them, donate to another museum, whatever.
A very informing film about Maria Altmann and the 5 Klimt Paintings.
This story is truly inspirational on many levels!! But, most of all it demonstrates how Truth & Justice were ultimately what prevailed! The heirs of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer can always be very proud of the legacy that Maria was able to accomplish - because she wanted to “Right” the “Wrongs” that her family had faced & endured during & after this very inhuman period in history. Greed & Power can never have a place in a just & humane society!!
You can be proud. You have given back your family legacy and history.
I have seen this wonderful painting in New York in June this year. WONDERFUL
Thank you for all you've done, Randol. Your challenges within the families, courts, and Austria have been overwhelming, yet you prevailed.
Thank you so much ! Iam reading the book, and the main thing for me is: Humanity must NEVER FORGET the horror of nazism. Greetings from Uruguay.
But this generation IS forgetting. Here in the USA it is popular with the liberal, democrat party to rail against Israel and the Jewish people. Suddenly it's as if ant-semitism is acceptable. I am disgusted with our youth for attempting to revise history or allow others to do it for them. They are following the party (mob) line and not thinking for themselves which would require too much effort.
@@kosmos1957 - And I am disgusted that you believe people condemning Israel's actions is anti semitic. Injustice should be pointed out no matter who is perpetrating it. Condemning the state of Israel for doing something that goes against human rights standards, is not the same as condemning a Jew for being Jewish. And if you think that it is, then in reality what you are actually saying is that anyone who is Jewish that disagrees with the state of Israel's policies are being anti semitic. Apparently you are unaware that many prominent Jew's do in fact disagree with the state of Israel's policies towards Palestine. Pull your head out and at least try to think logically.
The accusation of anti semitism is used to keep anyone who is not Jewish from criticizing anything that someone who is Jewish does, including whatever the state of Israel does. Anyone who possesses the ability to think critically realizes that the anti semitism argument is bull, and is crafted specifically to squelch questioning and criticism. It is no different than the absurd argument that to question the religion of Islam is a personal attack on muslims. As for the young democrats, they obviously do not possess critical thinking skills and are not only incapable of thinking logically but even actually thinking. Which upon reflection might actually be the reason for their very existence, but I digress, so back to the point.
Being Jewish doesn't mean you are 'special' or so very different than any other human that nobody is allowed to criticize anything you do; nor does it mean that the state of Israel get's to play by different rules, or have different standards than what the rest of the world is expected to. I say again, everyone should criticize injustice regardless of who the perpetrator is, or who the injustice is being penetrated against.
Kanye West is a liberal democrat???????? 🤣
I came after watched a Woman in Gold. How awesome combination Maria and Randol. It is all about lives and a restitution.
Danke! Ich freue mich von Herzen, dass dieses wunderbare Bild jetzt in Amerika ist. Danke
I just saw WOMAN IN GOLD and was so moved by this story
It is positively mind-boggling to try to imagine how many thousands of events, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of events, from the minute to the colossal that had to transpire for Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer I to not only survive, but then travel, from it's inception, 100 years into the future to find its rightful place with Mrs. Altman. I am certain that your role in this spectacular human drama was no accident, but rather poetically crafted by many of those events, namely a family friendship that withstood time and even the horrors of WWII, in order for things to be put perfect order. I can only imagine you as a young lawyer, finding yourself a David to those very intimidating Supreme Court Goliaths - my knees tremble for you now, although that time has long passed and your knees, I am sure, are quite strong and steady, made so, perhaps, by that one single experience. Although I am no art expert, I am, merely a lay art "appreciator", my favorite artist since a young age has always been Gustav Klimt, and yet I did not know of the exceptional story behind one of my favorite works of his. I am honored to have the rare chance to express my gratitude to you for your bravery, tenacity and passion in righting such a very important historical wrong and sharing it with the world. It is a truly touching story and you are a truly exceptional person.
I'm very happy about how Maria Altmann's story ended! Her and her family suffered so much! She were strong and asked for what belonged to her!
The only thing that makes me sad about that story (after I saw the movie about it), is that other families don't have the same strain she had so they live with that awefull pain and will always do for the rest of their lives!
The Holocaust was something that affected more than the Bauer family and it's sad that there is no happy ending for them!
I wish that this ending brought happiness to other families!
Another good part of it is that the arbitration panel ruled Austria was legally required to return the art! What a good thing for Austria's pride!
Quite disgusted that Austria restitution took that stance knowing they were stolen. Am glad Adele won and that Austrians saw what was right.
Austrians need to accept their history. No denial.
So should the Germans who continued robbing my mother after reunification. They refused to return her Apartment building in Berlin because Austria signed a Treaty with east Germany which they defaulted on.
Is the matter settled beyond appeal, Semsen Eini? Things like that infuriate me. It's as if the Nazis had WON the war.
Great doc. Saw the exhibition at LACMA.
The Altmann case is important in bringing to the world's attention how there remains art still waiting to be returned to its owners - and how it's rarely just handed over with a muttered but sincere apology.
The postscript to this 2006 film is, of course, that Austria didn't make appropriate arrangements to keep the works. This surprised me. It's one thing for a government to say they can't justify the expense. It's another thing to know there are a few billionaires in Austria who could've pulled out a checkbook or put the Klimts on his or her Visa card.
I mean, the fellow who own Red Bull energy drinks is worth over ten billion dollars.
Finally all these paintings have been sold if i read you well: On November 8, 2006 Christie's auctioned off four paintings by Gustav Klimt which had been recovered by the Bloch-Bauer family from Austria. The auction was until 2013, the highest grossing auction of all time. And “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which Ronald S. Lauder, the cosmetics heir, privately bought for the gallery in June for $135 million. Why she decided to sell these paintings for this unbelievable amount of money?
She and the other heirs formed a philanthropic organization, giving much of the money to very worthwhile causes. I ask you, why sell the portrait for permanent display and have $135M to do good deeds?? What would you do with all that money? Wouldn't you want to be known for philanthropy?
When you are in your 80's would you like to live with a painting valued at 125 million dollars under your roof? Would you build a new house at 80? That is what she would have had to do to have proper security. She sold it to Lauder because he values art for arts sake and has a museum where her conditions of sale said he had to leave it permanently on display to the public. She wasn't going to live forever.. she had to think of the future of that art work.
I would hope that the family has KEPT most of the money. After all, there are future generations for whom to plan. A few hundred million is hardly excessive wealth for a family to possess, in-aggregate. Why should they give away the last crumbs of a gigantic fortune, which has already been 'appropriated' for 'The People', by the Nazis (who apparently never went out of business, in Austria). It hurt me to see this lady driving a cheap Ford, and living in that wretched little house, while the present-day Nazis were denying her recovery of her assets.
Kristine B: You're absolutely right Kristine B, Mrs Altmann (a truly delightful lady btw) was a very old lady and these paintings are so valuable.
It makes no sense to own such things unless you are a billionaire with the resources to pay the insurance and protection of such valuable assets. The Neue Gallery in New York houses some very fine Austrian Fine Art and Decorative Art from the early 20th century - the golden portrait hangs there now.
Try to imagine living with such valuable & well known paintings? The insurance alone would be prohibitive.
Why should Jewish property be given to please people who threw flowers at the feet of the Nazis? It seems that the Austrians have learned very little. Justice was done.
Some Austrians learned enough so that an Austrian reporter spend years of his life in dark dusty archives to uncover the data that made the success of this case possible long before three Austrian mediation judges (one selected by the museum) voted to do the right thing even though it caused a terrible loss to the Belvedere Museum and, I'm sure created some resentment among unrepentant Nazis some of whom remain in power. We should appreciate those acts of decency.
WHEN will Austria own up to it's place in complicity. You voted for Kurt Waldheim...
What a wonderful documentary
What a nerve to say the paintings belong to Austria.
un chef d'oeuvre
the house of the Bauers is STILL head quarters of the DB???!!!!! This is 2023, Im gonna check, I cannot believe this
Amazing...
This is what happens when there is a failure of one party to understand what is asserted by another to be untrue. Sort of like the current situation with TwiceImpeached. How wonderful to understand the timeline to determine what is true. No one can deny how appealing is the painting in question and how it became a national representation of Austria. But as it comes out, you cannot give away property that is not yours and Austria was willing to go to extreme ends to keep that trophy. If it had not been for the receipt that the painting had been paid by her husband and never was the property of Adele that despite what was in her will could not take place. Yet that interpretation advanced by Austria was the position taken by Austria to hold on to the painting. Thank goodness the legal process accepted the timeline offered by Maria and the painting was restored to the family. And the subsequent sale of the painting gave Maria a wonderful end of life experience.
Actualy, it doesnt matter whether the painting was strictly Adeles, because this was her will in 2023. You cannot reasonably expect her to not having made other provisions, if she had been still alive during the war. It is a convenient bureaucratic argument, but it doesnt hold on the grander scheme of things. It shows how rückzichtlos the austrians were, in 2006. I hope they learned something in the meantime
Can't wait to see the Waldheim collection....
If you have any opportunity,please, make russian subtitles. The incredible story! Thank you for this documentary film and the movie with Helen Mirren is very interesting too!
Thank you....
It is such a sad story....may us human never repeat the mistake again......
So happy for the outcome of the woman in gold but would of love to seen the necklace, apartment and other properties returned to Maria.
I understand the Adele II painting was bought by Oprah for about $89 million, who then auctioned it off a few years later at a 71% profit - for $150 million ... sold to a Chinese buyer with a private museum. After that long and emotionally-charged battle to get it back from the Austrians, we now bid a fond farewell to that painting, somewhere in China ... bye bye and 谢谢 Xièxiè
Wrong. Get the facts.
What ever happened to Adele's famous jewelry? I know they were given to Maria on her wedding day and they were stolen and given to Goring's wife but after that where did they go? Have they been lost to history?
I know I am late with my answer but it seems Maria Altman was to late to claim them.
It hasn't been possible to trace what happened to the jewelry. Best theory is that the pieces were broken up into the individual stones, which come across as anonymous.
I know that after her husband's arrest she spent a year in jail and about 30% of her property was taken away from her
The Art belongs to the family..plain and simple. The Museum knows better..this is how the WORLD really WORKS..Good Luck
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I recently spotted a Klimt type painting! Possibly from a Bauer source and certainly didn't steal it because I know about respect for cultural heritage! I also saw what maybe a classic icon painting and on both instances people around seemed oblivious but upon arrival later both had disappeared! Amazing how sacreligious church officials can be when they're informed about possibility of item being worth considerable amount! No appreciation for artistic expression or possible spiritual dimension or content when physical percuniary profit can seemingly easily replace metaphysical entity and it's spiritual value because there's so few perks to the job! Yes Mr Zimmerman " everything is broken"
Although I have very eclectic taste, Klimt has remained my favorite for forty plus years ...
great documentary
Love your story . Hope to one day meet with you. Soon. ♥️
Adele Blochbauer was the woman portrayed in The Kiss..
Awesome!
Sad thing is... Austria isn't the only west European country that never gave back the stolen art by the nazis. It's a shame!
The paintings were sold at Christie's auction house in NewYork. The Gold Blockbower sold privately for $139 million dollars. So much for family history!
SO LESS!!!!!
Nonsense and hateful rhetoric. Maria is gone now, she had few years left to live by the time she nailed the Austrians to the legal wall. She sold Woman in Gold to Lauder on the condition that it be permanently on display for the world to see. Schoenberg donated over 10 million of his legal fee's earned to the Holocaust museum in California. And it is Bloch Bauer not Blockbower.
This is such a painful part of history. So unfair for the Jewish people. All should be returned ALL!
If I would of have anything in my family house that would of been robed, I would of fight to have it back!…
If ever things would happened to have a very high value, I would still fight for it and not for the money!…
The fact is that this lady had been robed and she asked for what belonged to her!
It has been robed!
If I would knew that the country that had me getting out of it and also robed me would make money out of my misery, I would be so mad that I would definitely fight against them!!!!
She deserves her win!
I'm sad that she had to die just a few years after all this but, at least, she could be proud of what she has done in her life!!!!!
tell me more i love this
Adele's will meant nothing - she was a woman, she didn't own anything. She wanted the painting to be in the museum, but what she wanted has no bearing. The painting was commissioned by her husband. He owned it, and subsequently, his heirs.
Otto Rapp -He gave them to her.
of course you are right - my comment was tongue-in-cheek. I was hoping someone would say something!
This is how a patriarchal society works. Since then, at least women got the right to vote ..... and make decisions about their belongings ......
Why did they not honored her will? But it seems her will didn't mean anything in court. After all, in a patriarchal society, she was just a woman!
Yes, these paintings were stolen by the Nazis, but eventually they wound up where, according to her will, she would have wanted them to be, in the Austrian Museum at the Belvedere.
I've seen them when they were still there, where she had wanted them to be in the first place.
EXACTLY, Christine B!
@@OttoRappTheMystic It had nothing to do that she was a woman. The will was more of a wish. Her husband payed for the painting so Adele didn't own it. In his will he gave the paintings to his nieces.
Yes it was patriarchal society, though she was the person in the paintings, true it was her husband who technically owned the paintings. But it was his will that got the paintings back into the hands of the families. I don’t know if it was a patriarchal move or it was because he saw what was seeing what was happening with the nazis and had a foreboding feeling about the nazis, and wanted to be sure his family to inherit the art if they survive. Maybe he had a sense the Belvedere was in the control of the Nazis and they would try to steal the art ( which in the end was true)
If i have said it before i will say it again being a historian and archivist--not even the dead can keep secrets. I can see how it happened but just why those who tried to get away with it were tremendously overly optimistic or just plain stupid. Also, the hubris of the time very well influenced stupidity. How embarrassing of the man on behalf of Austria saying that the portrait was the absolute property of the state. You cant live that down. Thank goodness Adele never had the legal right to title to the works to the state. And congratulations to Maria for going after what represents only part of what was stolen from people before, during and after WWII. The return of the Klimt works must have helped Maria & family enjoy what part of her life she had left after repossessing the wonderful art.
Even when Adele Bloch Bauer wanted to give away the paintings to a public institution in Vienna, I think she MIGHT have shanged her mind if she was still alive in 1940. The arguments of the Austrian lawyers could be easily debunked. If you want to stay in bureaucratic spheres, the bloch Bauers should have been compensated with far more then a couple of paintings. Vienna was built by talented jews. Without them, or the Bloch-Bauers, what would Vienna have been? The argumentation of the Austrians is hilarious
Good luck 🍀 darling
'Woman in Gold' is an outstanding testament as to what the Nazis did to individuals, families, culture and societies. All the good aspects were stolen and so many of the Individuals were murdered in the pursuit of power. Power, a truely heinous frailty of human nature. I am happy to know that that is not one of my human frailties.
I read that her father died of illness shortly after his violin was taken. She did not leave Austria until after her father’s death. But there was no mention of her mother or how her brothers survived.also what became of the diamond choker after the nazis?
Cello not violin
it was then sold to ronald lauder in 2006, and been displayed in neue gallerie since. some of my friends think it's all about money. not true. making a donation to public institution would be nice, but when $135m appeared on news headline, everyone should remember adele again. that meant a lot more than being nice.
The horrors of occupation and war should be settled.
But we can't say one tragedy is more worthy then another.
A good majority of the wealth of Europe and the Vatican is from the horrors inflicted on the Original peoples of the Americas. Its estimated that 200 million people were living in Americas prior to Europeans. Within a few generations nearly 90% lost their lives to the occupiers.
As well as the gold-silver and gems- many people were forced into slavery to mine and grow crops like sugar.
If we admit the horrors of one we must also look at the others.
I will bet there is some gold on those paintings of Klimpts that has the blood of Americans in it.
You are obviously ignorant of not only of the Vatican's history but world history in general.
I'm curious, will this film be released in Austria?
LOL. Good question.
It should be with mandatory viewing. The only reason they relented was the public shaming they were getting over the negative publicity. They made it impossible to fight in Austrian courts and succeed not realizing the selling of their art books (further profiting from Nazi theft) in the USA left them open to the lawsuit. Monsters.
Austria and the Belvidere could have acknowledged the family had a connection to property taken by the Nazis Hitler Austria and Germany.
So many parties were complicit and the right thing to do is acknowledge the atrocities and not quibble over a Legal point.
Belated justice...horrible Austria...
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09:53 actually 4, the prusians, the ottomans, the germans and Czrarist russians!
That Austrian Lawyer was still fighting for that painting. The Nazis stole it so the Belvedere museum got it illegal.
And despite wat austria thought they possessed was based on wrongly percieved docu.ents. they were ot hers 2 give so her will was irrelevant.
une traduction svp ? ?
horrible story, but how brave to do this and win! The most awfull part I found was the wife of Herman Goring wearing Adele's jewelry. That must have hurt her not only in her soul, but in her entire beeing.
Really glad she got her paintings back if those paintings were mine i would make sure that the museum would never get them after how badly they behaved and i doubt i would want to return to vienna either even if they would have been treated as enemy aliens the brits would have treated them ok
Thank you so much for sharing with me an infamous fragment of the Hitler's Nazi horrendous regimen, echoed in this interview.
It must have been a painful odyssey it is to recollect such memories and to recount them.
The crimes and cruelties committed against my sons and daughters, my fathers and mothers, my brothers and sisters hurt me deeply, regardless their ethnicity and nationality.
In Isaiah 2: 4, Jehovah God, the Creator and Source of life, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, promises:
"He will be judge among the nations and will settle matters in relation to many peoples. They will turn their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. The nations will no longer raise their swords against each other and learn no more to wage war."
My immediate neighbors are Jews and I am a Jehovah's Witness.
Their hearts are superior than pure gold by far. They are extremely kind.
The gentleman takes care of my trash can every Wednesday without my asking him to do so. They are lovely human beings, and they are not in need of the smallest improvement.
Origin unknown often a label attached to pieces in museums whether private or otherwise! Te Papa tongarewa were miffed despite Gold tablets were unavailable for public exhibition my koro great grandfather Horomona/ Solomon pohio's patu was able to be viewed in a glass case in Utah because some random eccentric possibly senile kuia on marae from previously opposing tribe and having ILLEGALLY acquired the mere by means of treachery and war decided to commit the greatest slur and historic crime of all and ceremoniously give it away to the Mormons. As is practice with some denominations they research people's family history and genealogy and convert a number of locals and possibly threaten a rocky road to heaven unless following their doctrine and are somehow convinced to abandon worldly possessions for supposed heavenly salvation although they've committed a series of heinous crimes to obtain it!
i think, this lawyer of the austrian governement has no good jobs anymore!!!!!!....GOOD!!!!!
Adèle's will was to have the paintings in a Austrian museum after her death...the were sold instead...the correct gesture would have been to offer them to a museum once they were back in the family...
I thought an arrangement was made. End of Documentary.
that indeed would have honored her will! But it seems her will didn't mean anything in court. After all, in a patriarchal society, she was just a woman!
Yes, these paintings were stolen by the Nazis, but eventually they wound up where, according to her will, she would have wanted them to be, in the Austrian Museum at the Belvedere.
I've seen them there when they were still there, where she had wanted them to be in the first place.
When you are in your 80's would you like to live with a painting valued at 125 million dollars under your roof? Would you build a new house at 80? That is what she would have had to do to have proper security. She sold it to Lauder because he values art for arts sake and has a museum where her conditions of sale said he had to leave it permanently on display to the public. She wasn't going to live forever.. she had to think of the future of that art work.
The "correct gesture" was to do exactly what the family wanted to do with the paintings which had been STOLEN from them. They've been forced to "give" far too much, as it is. This is not a reality show. This is real life. They're not limitlessly rich, and actually NEED the seventy five million or so (I'm sure taxes and legal fees took most of it), for future generations.
Listen to the facts again... Adele didn't own the paintings. If I write a will to leave everything you own to a museum when I die, what does that compel you to do? I'll bet you'd say what I'd say... NOTHING.
So, Hitler was rejected for no talent and he hold that grudge for all those years to take his revenge. Does it sound like someone we know ? Boy she surely behaves the same way. Lol 😂
How about what our American fathers did to the native Indians after the civil war? What the did; was it any better than what the Nazi's did??
WHY do you keep attempting to justify one wrong with another? Have you no common sense whatsoever? I am an American that certainly have never sought to justify what was done to Native American's. Especially when our government spends billions of dollars on welfare for blacks to ease their conscience over slavery. What your saying would be like me saying we support NA's before blacks..... This is not about Native American's. This video is about one woman fighting the Austrian Government and winning material objects. You can't give her back what she would like most, her family members. And we cannot "give back" land to Native American's. This continent was populated with people before those people.
No it wasn't, but what does that have to do with this subject?
Weird comment.