Hubertus Czernin is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 17, 1956 in Vienna, Austria. In 1984, he began writing for the weekly newsweek Wochenpresse. He was eventually promoted to editor of Profil magazine in Vienna in 1984.
Czernin was portrayed by actor Daniel Brühl in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.
Czernin was twice married, first to Cristina Teresa de Muraszombath Szechyszigetet Szapary de Muraszombath Szechyszigetet Szapary in 1979. This marriage ended in divorce in 1981. In 1984, he was married to Valerie Countess von Baratta–Dragona and became the father of three girls.
Hubertus Czernin (born Hubertus Alexander Felix Franz Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz; 17 January 1956 – 10 June 2006) was an Austrian investigative journalist.
Czernin was the first journalist to gain access to records at the Austrian Gallery in Vienna and, in 1998, published a series of articles about the ownership of five famous paintings from artist Gustav Klimt, proving that claims by Austria that they had been donated to the gallery by Ferdinand or Adele Bloch-Bauer were false. The articles led to the passage of Austria’s Art Restitution Law, which allowed the family of Maria Altmann, the niece of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, along with Altmann’s lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg, to pursue claims successfully to the Klimt paintings that had been looted from her uncle during World War II (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann). A United States Supreme Court ruling allowed Altmann to sue the Austrian government for ownership of the multimillion dollar Klimt paintings in the United States. Hundreds of families had looted art restored to them, or restitution made, under the new law.
