Krannert Art Museum will host a free screening of the film “Woman in Gold” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 21.
The film, starring Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren, tells the true story of a legal battle between the Austrian government and Maria Altmann, a Chicago-area woman whose family’s possessions, including a painting by Gustav Klimt, were seized by the Nazis during World War II. The painting was kept by the Austrian government after the war.
The film will be introduced by Lisa Silverman, a professor of history and of Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and co-author of “Interwar Vienna.” Silverman will be joined by Maureen Warren, curator of European and American art at Krannert Art Museum, for a discussion following the film.
The screening is co-sponsored by the U. of I. Program in Jewish Culture and Society.
More information is available online.
