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Here are reports on two of the items featured on Trusts & Estates covers: On the November 2003 cover: Maria Altmann's suit to recover six paintings from the state-owned Austrian Gallery can go forward in a U.S. federal court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month. Altmann was featured on the November 2003 cover with one of the disputed paintings a portrait of her aunt, Adele BlockBauer, commissioned
July 1, 2004
Rorie M. Sherman Editor in Chief
Here are reports on two of the items featured on Trusts & Estates covers:
On the November 2003 cover: Maria Altmann's suit to recover six paintings from the state-owned Austrian Gallery can go forward in a U.S. federal court, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month. Altmann was featured on the November 2003 cover with one of the disputed paintings — a portrait of her aunt, Adele BlockBauer, commissioned from the noted artist Gustav Klimt by Adele's husband Ferdinand, a Viennese sugar magnate.
The paintings, owned by Adele's husband Ferdinand after her death in 1925, were seized by the Nazis after they annexed Austria in 1938.
The court ruled 6-3 that Altmann's suit could proceed in federal district court unde...
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