New Answers Coming to Light for Hidden-Away Klimt Paintings

JERUSALEM -- For many years, a collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt, some of them stolen by Nazis, languished in a quiet apartment on Vienna's Strudlhofgasse, hidden away from the growing obsession with the early modernist who painted "The Kiss." The paintings had been collected by Gustav Ucicky, a Nazi propaganda filmmaker who was one of the illegitimate sons of Klimt, and they were now held by his aging widow Ursula. On a rainy day in Vienna, I knocked on her door, to ask her what many art ...