Career
Czernin is noted as a main character figure of the 2015 film, Woman in Gold, where he is depicted by Daniel Brühl. He wrote initially for the news weekly Wochenpresse. In 1984 he was hired by the Viennese magazine Profil, eventually becoming its editors
Czernin"s investigation of Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër revealed that he had had sex with over 2,000 young men, starting in the 1950s and ending in the 1990s.
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. 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. Altmann"s Attorney East. Randol Schoenberg stated "Hubertus Czernin was a hero to medical
He committed his life to exposing unspoken truths about Austria and its Nazi past" Schoenberg"s client Maria Altmann stated "Without Hubertus, there would have been nothing." "Believing in justice for Maria Altmann kept Czernin alive," an obituary in Der Standard noted shortly after Czernin"s untimely death in 2006.
"All was quiet in the thieves’ kitchen, and might have stayed that way except for Count An investigative journalist of integrity, he campaigned successfully for a law to compel restitution," wrote David Pryce-Jones. Czernin was portrayed by actor Daniel Brühl in the 2015 film Woman in Gold.