LOS ANGELES (AP).- Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Angeles after a long illness, said E. Randol Schoenberg, her friend and attorney. Altmann was already in her 80s in 1998 when she and Schoenberg began a legal fight with the Austrian government over the paintings, which included a world-famous gold-encrusted picture of her aunt, the “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.” The 1907 masterpiece hung in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna. The Austrian government contended that Altmann’s aunt, who