Schiller in Weimar

Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified

Categories: Drawings / Chalk drawings

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

34830

Description

Black chalk on card, 1865, frame measurements (outside): 41.73 x 52.36 x 0.98 in.

Height

102.5 cm

Width

132 cm

Motif

Allegories and histories

Period

2nd half of the 19th Century

Provenance Data

 

Provenance

Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)

Provenance according to museum / collection

Lawyer Otto Kammerlander received the piece in lieu of payment by clients who had to emigrate, and who had not been able to thank him for his services in a different manner ('an Zahlungsstatt von Klienten, die auswandern mussten, und sich für seine Dienste nicht anders hatten bedanken können'). Acquired from the so-called Art Museum, Linz (i.e. Hitler's museum project) in 1944. Transferred to the Albertina by the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('Bundesdenkmalamt') in 1963 (Zl. 1274/63. Finally inventorised 1965). A report to the Commission for Provenance Research is available.

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.

Recommendation

No recommendation has been issued yet.

Committee in charge

Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport

Decision

No decision has been reached so far.

Implementation

The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.

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