E. Randol Schoenberg

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Eric Randol Schoenberg (born September 12, 1966 in Santa Monica ) is an American attorney with a law firm in Los Angeles . He is the grandson of the Austrian composers Arnold Schönberg and Erich Zeisl .

Career

Schoenberg became known through the case of Maria Altmann . In the legal dispute between Altmann and the Republic of Austria , he enforced the return of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were confiscated from the family during the Nazi era . These were the paintings Adele Bloch-Bauer I (the golden Adele ), Adele Bloch-Bauer II , apple tree , beech forest / birch forest and houses in Unterach am Attersee . Austria had refused to return the paintings for a long time. Maria Altmann and her co-heirs were successful in 2006 before an arbitration tribunal appointed in the United States , to which Austria had ultimately given its consent after the US Supreme Court in 2004 declared an action in the United States admissible. Randol Schoenberg worked on a success fee basis, which was calculated based on the value of the pictures. He received a fee of several million US dollars for his legal representation. He was interviewed for the film Adele's Wish, which deals with the case. In the film Die Frau in Gold , which was released in 2015, he played a leading role , played by Ryan Reynolds , alongside Maria Altmann, played by Helen Mirren .

Randol Schoenberg was president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust until 2015 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Apropos Doctor Faustus: Correspondence between Arnold Schönberg and Thomas Mann 1930–1951. Czernin, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-707-60275-3 .
  • Brief biographical history and genealogy of Nuria Schoenberg Nono. In: Schoenberg & Nono. Pp. 11-25, OCLC 605131867 .
  • The most famous thing he never said. In: Arnold Schönberg and his God. Pp. 27-30, OCLC 695794965 .
  • Arnold Schoenberg and Albert Einstein: their relationship and views on Zionism. In: Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute. Volume X, No. 2, pp. 134-187. Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Los Angeles 1987, OCLC 18794292 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schoenberg, E. Randol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenberg, Eric Randol (full name); Schoenberg, Randy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California