Here is a story worthy of fun . If you want to see a visualized description, you can watch a recent one. The movie "woman in gold" ("woman in gold") although this movie does not contain all the truth.
To sum it up, it is said that the high price sale of this painting is a successful political expression and commercial operation of the Jewish community.
The thing is like this:
Around 2000, the government organized the "art restitution" movement in Austria, the main purpose of which was to return the art objects that the Nazis looted from Jewish families at the time to their original owners. At this time, an old American lady named Maria Altmann targeted the "Woman in Gold" painting.
The woman in this painting is named Adele Bloch-Bauer, she is the wife of Uncle Maria Altamann. The uncle and his wife have no children, so Maria Altmannn is stipulated in their will as their heir. At that time in Vienna (around 1907), it was very popular that wealthy people paid for paintings and paintings for their families, so the painting was legally the property of the uncle's family.
But everyone knows that because the Nazis invaded Austria, all the works of the uncle's house were robbed, Maria and her husband went to exile to the United States.
Back in modern times, the old lady Maria found a young man lawyer (this lawyer is also a descendant of the Austrian Jews in exile), and went back to Vienna together to recover the painting.
Of course it is impossible to succeed!
Because this painting is a national treasure of Austria, the model Adele in the painting is called the Mona Lisa of Austria. And in Adele's will, she also hoped that the painting would be donated to the national museum after the uncle's death. Of course, before the uncle died, the Nazis took the painting away.
Granny Maria certainly wouldn't give up. After she and her lawyer came back, she sued the Austrian government to the US Supreme Court, which was quite a sensation. After a long trial, in 2006 an independent committee of judges in Austria announced that five klimt paintings once owned by the Bloch-Bauer family were returned to Granny Maria.
This process is actually a struggle between a powerful Jewish group and the Austrian government. If only Granny Maria was alone, it would be impossible to go so far.
In the same year, Grandma Maria bought five paintings to Ronald Lauder at sky-high prices. You guessed it, Ronald Lauder is also Jewish, and his mother is very famous—the name is Estee Lauder. This little Lauder used to be the American ambassador to Austria. The five paintings he bought immediately became the treasures of the Neue Galerie museum he opened in 2001 in New York, because the first transaction price in history also made this The young museum becomes famous (gold) every night.
That young lawyer also opened his own law firm, whose main business is art restitution. The
old lady Maria has become a rich old lady.
As for the Austrians, I might once again recall the open secret that he was not a victim of the Nazis during World War II but an accomplice. So if the national treasure is gone, you can only swallow this bad breath.
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