Hummingbird-skin

Restitution status: Heirs being sought

Categories: Further categories / Zoological objects

Object Data

 

Artist

Museum

Inventory Number

Vogelsammlung Nr. 32419

Provenance Data

 

Former owner according to museum / collection

Siegfried (Fritz) Roubicek (born September 4, 1890 - died August 22, 1939)

Provenance

Purchase from a private collection

Provenance according to museum / collection

So called acquisition in 1938

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.

Recommendation

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.

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.

Annotations

In its meeting of September 28, 2007 the Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: The Advisory Board recommends to the Federal Minister for Education, the Arts and Culture that the 53 hummingbird-skins from the Natural History Museum in Vienna be restituted to the heirs of Siegfried Roubicek. The aforementioned objects are listed in the enclosed file and designated with 'Roubicek & Purm'.

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