Maria Altmann
Maria Altmann (née Maria Victoria Bloch, later Bloch-Bauer; February 18, 1916 – February 7, 2011) was an Austrian-American, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Nazi’s Third Reich. She is noted for her successful legal campaign to reclaim, from the Government of Austria, five family-owned paintings by the artist Gustav Klimt, stolen by the Nazis during World War II. == Early life == Maria Altmann was born Maria Victoria Bloch on February 18, 1916, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, the daughter of Marie Therese (née Bauer 1874–1961) and Gustav Bloch (1862–1938).