Aranka Munk

Born in Mako, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1862, into a Jewish family, Munk was the daughter of Simon Siegmund Pulitzer and Charlotte Pulitzer[1] and the sister of Klimt's chief patron Serena Lederer and Jenny Steiner.

[2] The Nazis seized the Klimt from Munk after she was deported to a concentration camp where she died in 1941.

[4] Vienna lawyer Alfred Noll submitted a claim for restitution on behalf of the Munk heirs in 2007.

[2] After Klimt's death Aranka Munk hung the unfinished portrait of her deceased daughter in her lake house.

In 1941, the Nazis seized her property and possessions and deported her to a concentration camp in Poland.