Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna

A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a buzzy auction in Vienna, per Der Standard. The individual, a Munich-based architect, is not a relative of the Leiser family, but lodged a claim after learning last week that the painting missing for a century had resurfaced at im Kinksy auction house.Titled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917), the work was purchased by an anonymous Hong Kong de