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Randol Schoenberg's biography reads like a novel. The grandson of Arnold Schönberg – the great Viennese composer who was driven into exile in California by the National Socialists – he came to Austria as a lawyer fighting for the return of looted art.
His most famous client was Maria Altmann, the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer. The latter’s portrait by Gustav Klimt, known as the "Golden Adele", hung in the Belvedere for decades. Schoenberg secured the painting’s restitution to its rightful owner. Klimt’s masterwork can now be admired in New York's Neue Galerie.
Schoenberg's efforts even caught the attention of Hollywood. In the film “The Woman in Gold,” he was portrayed by Ryan Reynolds, while Altmann was played by Hellen Mirren.
On the occasion of the joint exhibit "Theft" – on view at the Jewish Museum Vienna Judenplatz and the Wien Museum – Randol Schoenberg talks about his battles with the State of Austria and what remains to be done in the struggle for restitution.
Illustration: Gustav Klimt: Porträt von Adele Bloch-Bauer I , 1907. Neue Galerie New York
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Randy Schoenberg was born September 12, 1966 in Los Angeles, California to Ronald Schoenberg and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg. Randy is well-known as the attorney who recovered five famous paintings by Gustav Klimt from the Austrian government, the subject of the 2015 film Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
Randy grew up in the old Schoenberg house at 116 N. Rockingham Ave in Brentwood. He attended college at Princeton University, where he majored in Mathematics and European Cultural Studies. In 1987 Randy spent a junior semester abroad learning German and math in West Berlin (where also his uncle Luigi Nono was living at the time). Randy attended law school at the University of Southern California and became a litigator. After going out on his own and winning the Klimt case, Randy helped build a new Holocaust museum in Los Angeles. He is a lifelong, avid genealogist and lectures on genealogy as well as various topics in art law.
Randy’s wife is Pam and he has three children, Dora (23), Nathan (21) and Joey (17). Randy is Jewish. He
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E. Randol Schoenberg
American lawyer
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.[3][4][5][6]
Schoenberg is widely known as one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case of Maria Altmann against the government of Austria. Schoenberg is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds. He is also the subject of the 2023 genealogical documentary Fioretta.[7][8]
Early life and education
E. Randol Schoenberg was born to a Jewish American family of Austrian Jewish descent in 1966. He is the grandson of two Austrian-Jewish composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl. His parents are Ronald R. Schoenberg and Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg. His grandmother Gertrud Schoenberg was the sister of Jewish violinist Rudolf Kolisch. His aunt Nuria is the widow of the Italian composer Luigi Non
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