After watching the movie, I checked it on the Internet, and I can confirm that the real historical version must be much more complicated and exciting than the movie interpretation. What Maria does is her right, but it does not mean that she has to complete her recovery plan in a gentleman's way as described in the movie; Austrian makes mistakes before and deserves to be beaten in the face, although she is deliberately obstructing everywhere, but It can't be like the villain in the movie. Black and white are not always as distinct in the three-dimensional as in the two-dimensional, which is also its charm.
The following slots are organized according to the German/English wiki (of course, the wiki may not be correct):
1. After winning the case...
Movie version: The curator of the Vienna Museum of Fine Arts immediately began to ask the heroine to sell the painting to the Austrian side in a low voice. , Was scolded by the hostess and left angrily; the
facts are just the opposite: Maria offered to sell these five paintings to Austria, but first, attorney Schönberg dismissed Austria’s request for a long-term lease of "The Woman in Gold" (too ruthless) La~); 2. Maria also provided Austria with a back door, which allowed them the right to buy in advance without bidding with other American buyers. But the prerequisite is that the buyer cannot be a private person, it must be a museum or a gallery, because Maria hopes that these paintings can remain in the public eye; 3. Maria offered US$300 million for the five paintings, and the Austrian art museum was too poor to let it. These five paintings have left the territory of Austria forever (the National Gallery is the same where there is no money, the acquisition of high-priced artworks is almost all private, Ms. Altmann, you are too black).
2. After returning to the United States in 2006, Maria sold five paintings for a total of more than 300 million US dollars. But not as Maria had hoped before. Four of the five paintings are in private collections and are not open to the public. The only one collected in the gallery is the "Woman in Gold", which set the highest art transaction record at that time for $135 million (it should now be in the top ten). The rich second generation who bought it was called Ronald S. Lauder, the son of Estee Lauder. Since then, this painting has become the treasure of the town hall of the Neue Galerie New York established by Mr. Lauder in 1968. Note that this gallery has a German name because its collection only involves German and Austrian painters in the early 20th century. In addition, Mr. Lauder's ancestors (grandparents) were also Jews who fled to the United States.
3. It can be said that Maria is already rich by selling paintings, but it's not over yet. Remember her uncle opened a sugar factory in the movie? (The excuse when the Nazis ransacked their homes in the movie was that the sugar factory evaded taxes.) This sugar factory had stocks in a Swiss bank, and later sold it to others under the pressure of the Nazis. The money was later recovered, about 250 million U.S. dollars :) The
film tried to shape a kind of personal and national confrontation, and the spirit of the legal system of the United States surpassed the former boss of Europe. But in fact, behind it is the collective behavior of the United States since the end of World War II, ZTE’s Jewish upper-class society’s liquidation of Europe. In addition to the return of artworks, these liquidations also included the encirclement and suppression of Swiss banks by the United States. Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, but the major banks cooperated closely with the Nazis. After the war, the United States has been biting the Swiss banks and demanding that they do overall liquidation, especially the unowned property of the victimized Jews in the liquidation accounts. Following the leaks of Swiss employees in 1991, it eventually led to a miserable defeat in Switzerland with compensation of US$1.25 billion.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with such various liquidations, but what supports them is not their moral conscience but the extremely powerful national power. In those days, countless Jews fled to all parts of the world, but no other countries have come back to liquidate Deorei. Here, what people can see is only an example of Maria Altmann, a Jew who recovered his family's property that year. But how many Jews still have died and cannot be recovered. And throughout history, how many wars have taken advantage of the fire, how can we, the Chinese, talk about retribution internally and externally? !
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