Vienna - Jewish Owner's Heiress To Get Priceless Paintings

Vienna - The Republic of Austria will hand over five priceless paintings by a modern master to the heiress of their former Jewish owner who fled the Nazis in Austria in the late 1930's.
The decision was by an arbitration panel, whose ruling had been accepted as binding by both sides in advance. There is no further instance of appeal.
It means that the five paintings - Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, Apfelbaum, Buchenwald/Birkenwald, and Haeuser in Unterach am Attersee - will go to heiress Maria Altmann aged 90, who lives in the United States.