LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When attorney E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg saw himself portrayed on the big screen by hunky Ryan Reynolds in the movie …
(JTA) — When attorney E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg saw himself portrayed on the big screen by hunky Ryan Reynolds in the movie “Woman in Gold,” he immediately spotted a difference.Apr 3, 2015
philanthropist Ronald LauderJewish philanthropist Ronald Lauder bought the Woman in Gold portrait for $135 million to display at his museum, the Neue Galerie in New York.Apr 2, 2015
The court ruled in their favor, allowing Schoenberg and Altmann to continue fighting the case on U.S. soil, eventually settling in arbitration with the Austrian government in 2006. The victory triggered a shockwave felt throughout the legal world.Apr 3, 2015
magnate Ronald LauderIn June 2006 cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder purchased Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for $135 million — then the highest price ever paid for a painting — for display in Manhattan's Neue Galerie, a sale brokered by Christie's.Jun 15, 2016
Who owns the Lady in Gold painting? Cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder bought Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from Christie's for $135 million, then the highest price ever paid for an artwork. The painting will go on display at Manhattan's Neue Galerie.
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Her father, Gustav, was most devastated when his prized Stradivarius cello was taken from him. Altmann recalled: “My father died two weeks after that. He died of a broken heart.” Of course, the Nazis seized all of Ferdinand's assets, which included his vast art collection.Sep 30, 2020
Did Maria Altmann get her necklace? In addition to Adele's diamond earrings and necklace, her uncle had given her the gifts just prior to her marriage to Fritz Altmann. However, the Nazis had taken them from her - the beautiful necklace she wore on her wedding day was gifted to Hitler's wife by Hermann Göring.
“Woman in Gold,” a 2015 film starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, a Jewish woman who took on and won a years-long battle against the Austrian government to regain ownership of a Gustav Klimt painting of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer.Jun 2, 2017
Mr. Altmann, an opera singer she married in 1937, went to Dachau to press his brother, who owned a cashmere business, to give up assets abroad. Having been released from jail, Fritz and his wife lived under house arrest. His last employment was at the Lockheed plant, where he died in 1994.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the family sold the 1907 canvas painting to Ronald Lauder, the son of perfume tycoon Estee Lauder. He purchased the artwork in 2006 for $135 million and currently displays it at his private museum, the Neue Galerie, in New York City.Sep 23, 2021
Despite his tender relationship with the Austrian government, it was actually the Belvedere Museum Of Vienna who purchased Klimt's piece in 1908. They paid 25,000 crowns for it (around £200,000 today), which, at the time, was the highest price of a painting to have been sold in Vienna.Jul 14, 2019
He is the grandson of two Austrian composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl. His parents are Ronald R. Schoenberg and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg. His grandmother Gertrud Schoenberg was the sister of violinist Rudolf Kolisch. His aunt Nuria is the widow of the Italian composer Luigi Nono. Both "Randol" and "Ronald" (father of E. Randol) are anagrams of "Arnold" (grandfather of E. Randol).
Schoenberg is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds .
Schoenberg represented Maria Altmann in her suit to obtain five Gustav Klimt paintings from the estate of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer as well as the "Palais", the Viennese house in which the paintings had been housed.
Schoenberg served as president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from 2005 to 2015. He is an avid genealogist and serves as a volunteer curator for Geni.com, one of its most active users, managing over 150,000 profiles. He is a board member of JewishGen and the Co-Founder of its Austria-Czech Special Interest Group. . He is the author of the Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy and the co-author of Getting Started with Czech-Jewish Genealogy.
Eric Randol Schoenberg (born September 12, 1966) is an American lawyer and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Schoenberg is widely known as one of the central figures of the 2015 film Wo…
E. Randol Schoenberg was born in 1966. He is the grandson of two Austrian composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl. His parents are Ronald R. Schoenberg and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg. His grandmother Gertrud Schoenberg was the sister of violinist Rudolf Kolisch. His aunt Nuria is the widow of the Italian composer Luigi Nono. His younger sister Marlena Fejzois a medical scientist. Both "Randol" and "Ronald" (father of E. Randol) are anagrams of "Arnold" (grandfather of E. Ran…
Schoenberg represented Maria Altmann in her suit to obtain five Gustav Klimt paintings from the estate of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer as well as the "Palais", the Viennese house in which the paintings had been housed. Altmann won her case before the Supreme Court of the United States against the government of Austria in Republic of Austria v. Altmann in 2004. Schoenberg operated on a contingent feebasis and reportedly received 40% of the proceeds from the Klimt paintings, a…
Schoenberg served as president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from 2005 to 2015. He is an avid genealogist and serves as a volunteer curator for Geni.com, one of its most active users, managing over 150,000 profiles. He is a board member of JewishGen and the Co-Founder of its Austria-Czech Special Interest Group. . He is the author of the Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy and the co-author of Getting Started with Czech-Jewish Genealogy.
Schoenberg resides in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, with his wife, Pamela Mayers Schoenberg. They have two sons and a daughter.
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