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Armoury fantasy
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Drawings / Pencil drawings, Drawings / Further kinds of drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34803
Description
Pencil, covering colour, highlighted in white with brush, on brown paper, 1866, inscription, below left: 'Ad. Menzel. 66.' (with brush in black)
Height
45 cm
Width
57.9 cm
Motif
Further motifs
Period
2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Adele Pächter
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Filiation: Estate of the artist (?). Private property, Berlin (according to Guido Joseph Kern's review on the Munich exhibition of 1932, in: 'Weltkunst' (an art magazine), 4 (1932), n. 38, from September 18, 1932). 'D., Götschendorf' (according to the auction catalogue published by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, auction 25 September 1941, lot 31). Acquired from the so-called Art Museum, Linz (i.e. Hitler's museum project) in 1941. Transferred to the Albertina by the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('Bundesdenkmalamt') in 1963 (Zl. 1274/63. Finally inventorised in 1965). A report to the Commission for Provenance Research is available.
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
The committee in charge has established the owners or their legal successors and has recommended to restore to them the art or cultural object.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.
The art or cultural object was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
In its meeting on 7 March 2014, the Art Restitution Advisory Board issued the following unanimous decision: the Federal Minister at the Federal Chancellery is recommended to restitute the following art object from the graphic art collection of the Albertina to the legal successors of Adele Pächter. The object was restituted to the legal successors in 2014
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© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism