Sued For Plundered Klimt's

A woman seeking to reclaim $150m (£81.7m) of Gustav Klimt paintings looted by Nazis is to enter arbitration with the Austrian government. Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann, 89, has been fighting for the return of the six paintings for nearly seven years. Ms Altmann recently received $21.9m (£11.9m) from a Swiss bank fund set up to compensate heirs of Nazi victims. Her Austrian relatives had their savings plundered from a Swiss bank by the Nazis in World War II. Ms Altmann, who lives in the US, has now agreed to enter binding mediation for the return of the Klimt paintings, one of which depicts her aunt. She was originally granted permission to sue the Austrian government by the US Supreme Court, which rejected Austria's claim of sovereign immunity. For the full story - click the title Irish Art