The Lady in Gold (59 page)

  
1
“HELLO, MY LOVE
!
”:
Maria Altmann, interviews, 2001.

  
2
“SHE AND MY MOTHER WERE SO DIFFERENT”:
Maria Altmann, interviews, 2001.

  
3
“I WAS A TIMID LITTLE GIRL”:
Maria Altmann, interviews, 2001.

  
4
“THEY SAY NOW AUSTRIA WAS A VICTIM”:
Maria Altmann, interviews, 2001.

  
5
“CRAZY NAZI PROPAGANDIST”:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, 2001.

  
1
“HE'S HERE TO SAVE THE GOLD
!
”:
Heard at a reception of consuls of Los Angeles at the home of Swedish consuls Andreas and Anita Ekman, 2001.

  
2
“THE JEWISH RESIDENTS BROUGHT”:
Interview with Ambassador Peter Moser. All subsequent quotations from Moser in this chapter come from this interview, 2001.

  
1
“OH, PETER MOSER”:
Maria Altmann, interviews. All subsequent quotations from Maria Altmann in this chapter come from these interviews, 2001.

  
2
“WE [MADE THE CONTRIBUTION]”:
Charles Goldstein, e-mail, June 17, 2010.

  
3
KEEP GOING, PAM TOLD HIM:
Pamela Schoenberg, interview, Sept. 2007.

  
4
“THE FIRST TIME IN HOLOCAUST REPARATIONS”:
Henry Weinstein, “Klimt Art Suit May Proceed,”
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 13, 2002.

  
5
“I WANT THOSE PAINTINGS”:
Ibid.

  
1
“I THINK THE PLAINTIFFS”:
Anne-Marie O'Connor, “A Portrait of Perseverance,”
Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 5, 2004.

  
2
“YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE RANDY”:
Maria Altmann, interviews, 2004.

  
3
“EXPERIENCED LITIGATOR”:
Bert Fields, phone interview, May 11, 2010.

  
4
“THE QUESTION IS ONE”:
David Pike, “Court Likely Will Reverse Art Case,”
Los Angeles Daily Journal,
Feb. 26, 2004.

  
5
“I DON'T KNOW IF WE PROTECT”:
Ibid.

  
6
“WHY DID YOU WRITE THIS?”:
Randol Schoenberg, interviews.

  
7
“I'VE BEEN REPORTING ON THE SUPREME COURT”:
Randol Schoenberg, interviews.

  
8
“EXPROPRIATION EXCEPTION”:
Henry Weinstein, “Austria Can Be Tried in U.S. Courts over Nazi-Seized Paintings,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 8, 2004.

  
9
“IN 1946 AUSTRIA ENACTED”:
Republic of Austria et al. v. Altmann,
Certiori to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Argued Feb. 24, 2004, Decided June 7, 2004.

  
1
“YOU'RE CRAZY”:
Randol Schoenberg and Maria Altmann, interviews, 2006.

  
2
“I HOPE HE WASN'T A MEMBER”:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, e-mail, Jan. 29, 2009.

  
3
THE PANELISTS HAD CONCLUDED:
Austria arbitration decision, Jan. 2006, p. 20.

  
4
“MERE REQUEST”:
Ibid., p. 21.

  
5
THEY DISCARDED AS “FAR-FETCHED”:
Ibid., p. 19.

  
6
“THE PARTIES INVOLVED IN ACTS OF SEIZURE”:
Ibid., p. 25.

  
7
“SIMPLY EXTORTED”:
Ibid., p. 24.

  
8
“USED THE PAINTINGS AS WEAPONS”:
Ibid., pp. 43–44.

  
9
RANDOL SECOND-GUESSED HIMSELF:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, Jan. 2006.

10
“I LET OUT A WHOPPING YELL”:
On-site reporting, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

11
“I HAVE A POSSIBLE BUYER”:
On-site reporting, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

12
“YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CALLS”:
On-site reporting, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

13
“MY DADDY WON”:
On-site reporting, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

14
“DADDY
!
MY FRIENDS SAY”:
On-site reporting, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

15
“THERE'S NOT GOING TO”:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, Los Angeles, Jan. 2006.

16
“I WOULD NOT WANT”:
Diane Haithman and Christopher Reynolds, “Court Awards Nazi-Looted Artworks to L.A. Woman,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 17, 2006.

17
“THIS IS A FAIRY-TALE STORY”:
Speech delivered by Peter Altmann at celebratory dinner at Spago, Jan. 9, 2006.

18
“THE AVAILABILITY OF THE BLOCH-BAUER KLIMTS”:
Letter from Christie's chairman Stephen S. Lash to Randol Schoenberg, Feb. 9, 2006.

  
1
AFTER A MAN THREATENED TO DEFACE:
Diane Haithman, “Threat Spurs Removal of Painting,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 21, 2006.

  
2
“THEY WEREN'T AFRAID”:
Randol Schoenberg, reporting, Feb. 26, 2006.

  
3
“THIS STUFF IS EVERYWHERE
!
”:
Randol Schoenberg, reporting, Feb. 26, 2006.

  
4
THEY CALLED FOR AUSTRIA:
“Austria Won't Buy Art Awarded to LA Heir,” Associated Press, Feb. 3, 2006.

  
5
“YOU'VE BEEN A
HUGE
INSPIRATION”:
On-site reporting, Feb. 26, 2006.

  
6
“RIDICULOUS
!
”:
On-site reporting, Feb. 26, 2006.

  
7
“I THINK THE CLIMATE”:
On-site reporting, Feb. 26, 2006.

  
1
RANDOL ANNOUNCED HE WAS HEADING OFF:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, Vienna, Feb., 2006.

  
2
“I WAS DRAFTED”:
Hans Mühlbacher,
Zwischen Technik und Musik
(Vienna: Edicion Atelier, 2003).

  
3
“MANY PRETTY GIRLS”:
Ibid., p. 126.

  
4
“SOME OF THE SOLDIERS WERE SORRY”:
Ibid., p. 142.

  
5
HE WAS AN SS OFFICER:
Herbert Alois Wagner FBI File 105-10525. FBI HQ: Investigative Reports; Classified Subject Files. Released under the Nazi and Japanese War Crimes Disclosure Acts. Classification 105: Foreign Counterintelligence. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.

  
6
HE AND HIS TWO ASSISTANTS:
Linda Hunt,
Secret Agenda
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), pp. 6–7.

  
7
HANS'S STORYBOOK HOMETOWN:
“Von Juden und Nationalsozialisten in St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut,”
One Journal,
June 12, 2010,
www.salai.at/article/lokales/stwolfgang/17274
.

  
8
THE SS ORDERED HANS:
Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour,
Unmasking Administrative Evil
(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009).

  
9
PEOPLE WHO HAD SEEN AIR RAID SHELTERS COLLAPSE:
Graziella Hlawaty and Pamela S. Sauer,
Broken Songs: An Adolescent in War-Torn Vienna
(Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2005), p. 180.

10
HANS SHOWED ME:
Herbert Wagner, His Work and Life, Documents
(Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; Deutsches Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1990), p. 10.

  
1
“I WAS A BIT HURT”:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, Jan. 8, 2007.

  
2
RANDOL FOLLOWED THE ADMINISTRATOR:
Randol Schoenberg, interview, Jan. 8, 2007.

  
3
RANDOL LIFTED UP:
Randol Schoenberg, interview Jan. 8, 2007.

  
4
THE BABY IN THE PAINTING, GEORG:
Arnold Greissle-Schönberg and Nancy Bogen,
Arnold Schönberg's European Family,
e-book,
www.schoenbergseuropeanfamily.org
, chap. 4.

  
5
“THE ERA HAS BEEN SO WIDELY CELEBRATED”:
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, speech at premiere of Raul Ruiz's film
Klimt,
Mar. 1, 2006.

  
6
“MYTHICAL CITY”:
Ibid.

  
7
“WE HAVE FERDINAND TO THE LEFT”:
Randol Schoenberg, reporting at the scene, Mar. 1, 2006.

  
8
“I DIDN'T TELL ANYONE”:
Suzanne Biro, author reporting at the scene, Mar. 1, 2006.

  
9
“I THOUGHT THERE WAS NO CHANCE”:
Randol Schoenberg, author reporting at the scene, Mar. 1, 2006.

10
THE FAMILY OF THE WALTZ KING:
Elaine Dutka, “Vienna Buys Back Strauss Memorabilia,”
Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 2, 2002. See also Michael J. Bazyler,
Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts
(New York: New York University Press, 2003), p. 244.

11
“IN THE END WE GAVE IT ALL BACK”:
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, author reporting at the scene, Mar. 1, 2006. Mailath-Pokorny was then City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science of the City of Vienna.

12
“AND WITHIN AUSTRIA”:
Author reporting at the scene, Mar. 1, 2006.

13
“JOURNALISTS KEEP ASKING ME”:
John Malkovich, interview, Mar. 1, 2006.

14
“IT IS SOMETHING”:
Alice Strobl, interview, Mar. 1, 2006.

15
“THE NAZIS MADE EVERYONE WORK”:
Alice Strobl, interview, Mar. 1, 2006.

16
“BASICALLY, THE GOVERNMENT”:
John Sailer, interview, Nov. 2, 2006.

17
“MY GUT FEELING”:
John Sailer, interview, Nov. 2, 2006.

18
“MAYBE YOU CAN CHANGE
[
RANDOL'S
]
MIND”:
Elisabeth Sturm-Bednarczyk, interview, Mar. 2, 2006. Subsequent quotations are also from this interview.

  
1
“IT WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT OFFER”:
Tyler Green, “ ‘This Is Our Mona Lisa,' ”
Fortune,
Sept. 28, 2006.

  
2
“THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT”:
Christie's letter, Feb. 9, 2006.

  
3
“OH MY DARLING”:
Maria Altmann, interview, Spring 2006.

  
4
“I'VE LOST SO MUCH WEIGHT”:
Hubertus Czernin, telephone interview, May 20, 2006.

  
5
“IT BECAME CLEAR”:
Green, “ ‘This Is Our Mona Lisa.' ”

  
6
“IT'S PRETTY HARD TO BE”:
Ibid.

  
7
DAYS BEFORE THE GOLD PORTRAIT:
Lawsuit, Randol Schoenberg, filed June 30, 2006, in the U.S. Court of the Central District of California. It was docketed July 10, 2006.

  
8
“I REFUSED TO PAY”:
Nelly Auersperg, telephone interview, May 18, 2011.

  
9
“THE MISUNDERSTANDING WAS RESOLVED”:
Steve Thomas, e-mail, May 17, 2011.

10
THE GOLD PORTRAIT WAS CAREFULLY PACKED:
Green, “ ‘This Is Our Mona Lisa.' ”

11
RON LAUDER WAS ANXIOUSLY PACING:
Ibid.

12
“IN MANY WAYS”:
Ron Lauder, press preview, July 12, 2006. Subsequent quotations from Lauder also from the press preview.

  
1
“ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE”:
Malteser Kreuz Zeitung des Soveranem Ritter-Ordens Member Chapter of the Grand Priory of Austria Franz Karl Auersperg; Franz Karl von Auersperg biography on website
www.malteserkreuz.org
.

  
2
“INSIDE THE GOLDEN FRAME”:
Marisa Harris, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 2006.

  
3
“I HAVE A FEELING KLIMT WAS INTERESTED”:
Nelly Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
4
“SHE WAS A DRAWING-ROOM SOCIALIST”:
Johannes Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
5
“I WOULD PREFER”:
Nelly Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
6
“HE'S GOING TO MAKE NINETY-SIX MILLION DOLLARS”:
Johannes Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
7
“ ‘MY SKI HOLIDAY' ”:
Johannes Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
8
“LUISE LOVED KLIMT PAINTINGS”:
Nelly Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

  
9
“IT WAS TIT FOR TAT”:
Johannes Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

10
“WE THOUGHT THE NAZIS WERE GONE”:
Nelly Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

11
JOHN STARTED TO SAY SOMETHING:
Johannes Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.

12
“THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SHOOT HIM YET”:
Nelly Auersperg, interview, Vancouver, Aug. 3, 2006.