Maria Altmann, who won return of looted art, dies

Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94.

Full story at the Wall Street Journal here

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Klimt at the Neue Galerie

Happy 2011 from the Klimt Collection! Here's wishing you the best this year!

And what better way to start the new year than with a visit to New York City's Neue Galerie?

In addition to the Klimt works already on view in their permanent collection, the Neue Galerie will be featuring additional pieces by Klimt and other noted turn-of-the-century artists of Vienna in an upcoming exhibition this February.

Details on "Birth of the Modern: Style and Identity in Vienna 1900" can be viewed here

Please take a moment to view our website here at Klimts.com, where we offer the most beautiful Klimt family-authorized reproduction paintings available anywhere!

Gustav Klimt's Mysterious Embryos

Read this interesting article at NewScientist here

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Current Klimt Exhibitions

• VIENNA 1900 – KLIMT, SCHIELE AND THEIR TIMES

Basel, Switzerland at Fondation Beyeler

September 26th 2010 – January 16th 2011

Details here

• NUDA VERITAS - Gustav Klimt and the Beginning of Secession in Vienna 1895-1905

Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

September 23th 2010 – January 9th 2011

Nearly 200 works, drawings and some outstanding paintings from public and private collections, on view now.

Details here

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Klimt Painting Auctioned

"Frauenbildnis (Portrait of Ria Munk III), one of the last great female portraits painted by Gustav Klimt, sold for £18,801,250, against an estimate of £14 million to £18 million, at Christie’s Impressionist / Modern Evening Sale in London on 23 May 2010. The third and final painting in a series of three portraits commissioned by the Munk family of their daughter Ria and the most modern of Klimt’s full-length female portraits, the painting offers a glimpse into the working methods of one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century." - via Christies

See complete article here

CNN article here

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Update: Benefit Concert and Dinner, Auction

May 18th's benefit given by the American Friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra was a success!

Our painting Schubert at the Piano fetched a very good price!

A beautiful evening was had by all with the music offerings supplied by four members of this greatest of all orchestras.

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May 18, 2010 Benefit Concert and Dinner, Auction

Schubert at the Piano, 1899

We are proud to be participating in an important event on May 18th here in NYC! Our painting of Schubert at the Piano will be auctioned off at a benefit dinner/concert given by the American Friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - the orchestra which incidentally was voted by the prestigious classical music magazine Gramophone as the "World's Greatest Orchestra."

Information on the Soiree here

Information on the Auction here

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