Mrs. Bloch-Bauer died in 1925, leaving a will in which she asked her husband at his own death to leave the paintings to the Austrian Gallery.

Founding member of the Association of Austrian Galleries of Modern Art, together with Herbert Grass.

The Austrian Gallery, more popularly known as the Belvedere, has 12 Rothschild artworks, mostly Baroque and 19th-century Austrian paintings.

For most of the last 60 years, Maria Altmann did not know that the celebrated Klimt paintings hanging in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna actually belonged to her.

In addition to the museums that still exist today, it also included plans to set up an Österreichische Galerie (Austrian Gallery) and a Moderne Galerie.

To the tourists, it is mostly known for the 18th-century castle and gardens of Belvedere, the residence of Eugene of Savoy, which today houses the Austrian Gallery.

Much of the former Rothschild art collection was either taken to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) or the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere palace.

The six paintings, now in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna, are worth more than $100 million.