Hummingbird-skin
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Further categories / Zoological objects
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Vogelsammlung Nr. 32421
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Siegfried (Fritz) Roubicek (born September 4, 1890 - died August 22, 1939)
Purchase from a private collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
So called acquisition in 1938
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
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'.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism