The Lady in Gold: The Remarkable Story of Klimt’s Nazi-Looted Painting and its Recovery

11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK • 7 PM LONDON • 8 PM VIENNA

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter’s husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a Jewish banker and sugar producer. The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941 and displayed at the Galerie Belvedere in Vienna. After a seven-year legal claim, which included a hearing before the US Supreme Court, an arbitration committee in Vienna agreed that the painting had indeed been stolen from the family and should be returned. Meet the American journalist Anne-Marie O’Connor who first broke the story to US audiences. 

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WATCH THE TRAILER

THE SCHEDULE

⇒ October 8-11 (optional) rent/watch the film Woman in Gold on your home device ($3.99). A link will be provided to all who register.

⇒ Sunday, October 10 at 2 PM ET, tune into the presentation and discussion with Anne-Marie O’Connor.  A link will be provided to all who register.

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MEET THE AUTHOR

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Anne-Marie O’Connor is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller The Lady in Gold, the true story that inspired the feature film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. She is a veteran journalist and war correspondent who has reported for The Miami Herald, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other media. Her story on Maria Altmann’s effort to recover her artwork appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine in 2001. O’Connor attended Vassar and the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she and fellow students co-created an award-winning documentary on the repression of artists after the 1973 military coup in Chile. She lives in London.

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