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Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Manuscripts / Musical manuscripts
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
Mus. Hs. 23370
Provenance Data
Acquisition from the VUGESTA/GESTAPO
Provenance according to museum / collection
From the police in 1941
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 Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media 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
At its meeting on 8 July 2025, the Art Restitution Advisory Board unanimously passed the following resolution: It is recommended that the Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport transfer ownership of the following works listed in the Commission for Provenance Research dossier 14/2024, ‘Walter Benedikt’ (20 music manuscripts, four printed music scores) from the Austrian National Library to the legal successors of Walter Benedict. The object was handed over to the legal successors of Walter Benedikt on 10 September.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism